larks

Noun (1)

lark (plural larks)

1. Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
2. Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
3. (broadly) One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.

   Synonyms:

   early bird, early riser

   Antonyms:

   owl

4. A jolly or peppy person.
   • Charles Randolph Grean is married to pop lark and multi-hit artist Betty Johnson.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 238

Noun (2)

lark (plural larks)

1. A frolic or romp, some fun.
   • ‘Ha! ha!’ laughed Master Bates, ‘what a lark that would be, wouldn’t it, Fagin? I say, how the Artful would bother ’em wouldn’t he?’1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 43, in Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC
2. A prank.
   • doolittle. […] [T]hanks to your silly joking, he leaves me a share in his Pre-digested Cheese Trust worth three thousand a year on condition that I lecture for his Wannafeller Moral Reform World League as often as they ask me up to six times a year. / higgins. The devil he does! Whew! [Brightening...1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act V, page 173

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