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rompish

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[rom-pish] / ˈrɒm pɪʃ /

adjective

  1. given to romping; frolicsome.


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Etymology

Origin of rompish

First recorded in 1700–10; romp + -ish 1

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There’s something inescapably rompish about splicing together the music of the Go-Go’s with English Renaissance source material.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 16, 2021

Since 1993, when Kenneth Branagh's rompish Much Ado About Nothing earned $23 million at the domestic box office on an $8 million budget, studios have begun to belly up to the Bard.

From Time Magazine Archive

As I thus gave vent to my resentment I instinctively felt that, so far from causing her to avoid me, it would quicken her rompish interest in me.

From The Rise of David Levinsky by Cahan, Abraham

To be sure, I tore my dress, scratched my face, and committed numerous other little rompish miss-demeanors, which procured for me a motherly scolding.

From Homestead on the Hillside by Holmes, Mary Jane

There in my boyhood days I went to school; A maiden mistress ruled the little realm; She taught the rudiments to rompish rogues, And walked a queen with magic wand of birch.

From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox

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