rollicksome
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- rollicksomeness noun
Etymology
Origin of rollicksome
Example Sentences
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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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Let him see one of the little white beds where he will sleep after you return home, the sunny dining room where he will eat his morning porridge and his Sunday ice cream; the playground full of rollicksome youngsters, with whom he will seesaw and play tag by and by, and the busy schoolroom, where so many delightful and interesting things are sure to happen.
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