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Definition of Frolicsomeness
1. Noun. Lively high-spirited playfulness.
Generic synonyms: Fun, Playfulness
Derivative terms: Frisky, Frolicsome, Sportive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frolicsomeness
Literary usage of Frolicsomeness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Charles Paul de Kock, with a General Introduction by Jules Claretie by Paul de Kock (1903)
"frolicsomeness, madame, to frighten a whole company ?" " As if any one should be
frightened by a few fulminating peas." " Two ladies were made ill by them, ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"It was the very apotheosis of fun, sworn brother ' to all frolicsomeness,' but
adds that in his later years he had fallen into 'a coarse buffoonery of ..."
3. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"Coming to Harris as they did through the modified primitive- ness of the negro,
their essential frolicsomeness is transmitted with surprisingly few African ..."
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