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rompish

American  
[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

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 Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

The reigning belles were mostly a set of loud, rompish girls, with names that rang unfamiliarly.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

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 Mary Jane Holmes

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