rompish

American  

[rom-pish] / ˈrɒm pɪʃ /

adjective

1. given to romping; frolicsome.

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Other Word Forms

• rompishly adverb
• rompishness noun

Etymology

Origin of rompish

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

Example Sentences

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

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

Besides, she is ill-bred, quite a rompish girl.

From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive

Lively 269 without being ever rompish, and naturally retiring, I asked only to be occupied, and seized with quickness the ideas which were presented to me.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)