rollicksome

[rol-ik-suhm]

adjective

1. rollicking; rollicking; frolicsome.

Other Word Forms

• rollicksomeness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of rollicksome¹

First recorded in 1840–50; rollick + -some ¹

Example Sentences

They fill this window with the rarest, rosiest, most rollicksome flowers.

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They did make a song of it, and it was a frolicsome song and pitched to a rollicksome key.

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They send me to school with my satchel and books, And my pockets bulged out with nails and fish-hooks; And sometimes while there my teacher she looks And captures the things that provoke and annoy From a frolicsome, rollicksome, freckle-faced boy!

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The cause was very evident, for there was Larry in the midst of a group of seamen, dancing an Irish jig to the tune of one of his most rollicksome songs.

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‘Come, man!’ saith the King, in his rollicksome way, ‘take a glass of that which cheereth God and man, as Scripture saith.’

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