lark
noun
any of numerous, chiefly Old World oscine birds, of the family Alaudidae, characterized by an unusually long, straight hind claw, especially the skylark, Alauda arvensis.
larkiness
-
a word derived from
lark.
Example Sentences
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These details hardly distract from the substantive issues raised — often with a wink — amid the show’s larkiness, including the realities of union rules and tensions with management.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2015
He and Baldwin were thrown in prison one night after some larkiness on Third Avenue.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2010
But, indeed, this Imperial debauch has in it something worse than the mere larkiness which is my present topic; it has an element of real self-flattery and of sin.
From Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
It’s a sign the nat’ral larkiness in yer’s coming back.”
From Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills by William H. C. Groome
It is hard to see at first sight why so human a thing as leisure and larkiness should always have a religious origin.
From Heretics by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
