frolicsome
adjective
merrily playful; full of fun.
frolicsomeness
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a word derived from
frolicsome.
Example Sentences
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They did not seem to understand how so much playfulness and piety, fervour and frolicsomeness could dwell in the same person.
From James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports by James Gilmour
They tease one another, butt with their horns in fun, run off, return, pretend new attacks and new flights with charming agility and frolicsomeness.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
As Niecks well says, "There is in them neither frolicsomeness nor humor"—such, for example, as we find in Beethoven's Scherzos—and he suggests that "Capriccio" might be a less misleading designation.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Walter Raymond Spalding
While the pool putrefies under the summer sun, God slips the rill off of the rocks with a frolicsomeness that fills the mountain with echo.
From Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. by John Gerardus Fagg
By degrees he grew full of youth enthusiasm, combined with childish frolicsomeness, and ended by levelling his weapon and aiming at space, like a recruit going through his drill.
From The Fortune of the Rougons by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
