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rollickingly

rollickingly adverb: in a rollicking manner.

Adverb

rollickingly (comparative more rollickingly, superlative most rollickingly)

  1. In a rollicking manner.
    • In a style that owes much to the black-out routines of Ernie Kovacs, Fruit of the Moon kept itself in a frenzy of funny activity. From an actual reading of the Boy Scout handbook on the subject of sexuality […] to a spoof of Charles Atlas advertisements, the troupe was bright and rollickingly good.1977 August 20, Jim Marko, “Building A Gay Culture―An Evening of Poetry and Theatre”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 16

Forms of rollickingly

comparativemore rollickingly
superlativemost rollickingly

Origin of rollickingly

From rollicking + -ly.

Questions about rollickingly

What does rollickingly mean?
Rollickingly means in a rollicking manner.
What part of speech is rollickingly?
Rollickingly is an adverb.

Words near rollickingly in the dictionary

  1. rollick
  2. rollicked
  3. rollicker
  4. rollickers
  5. rollicking
  6. rollickingly
  7. rollickingness
  8. rollickings
  9. rollicks
  10. rollicksome
  11. rollicksomeness

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