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frolicly

frolicly adverb: in a frolicsome manner; gaily or joyfully.

Adverb

frolicly (comparative more frolicly, superlative most frolicly)

  1. (obsolete) In a frolicsome manner; gaily or joyfully.
    • Comming to ſee you, I was ſet upon, / I and my men, as we were ſinging frolickly, / Not dreaming of an ambuſh of baſe rogues, / Set on ith' forreſt, [...]c. 1623–1624 – 1630s, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Lovers Progres”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC...
    • After some dys frolicly spent at Bath, he returned to his former temper1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed...

Forms of frolicly

comparativemore frolicly
superlativemost frolicly

Origin of frolicly

From frolic + -ly.

Questions about frolicly

What does frolicly mean?
Frolicly means in a frolicsome manner; gaily or joyfully.
What part of speech is frolicly?
Frolicly is an adverb.

Words near frolicly in the dictionary

  1. frolicks
  2. frolicksome
  3. frolicksomely
  4. frolicksomeness
  5. frolicky
  6. frolicly
  7. frolicness
  8. frolics
  9. frolicsome
  10. frolicsomely
  11. frolicsomeness

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