Reverse Dictionary: FROLIC

ADJECTIVES
► DAFT thoughtless or giddy in one’s mirth; madly gay or frolicsome → c1575 chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► DANDY pert, frolicsome → 1790 Eng. dial.
► FLISKY fidgety; unsettled; light-headed; whimsical; frolicsome; flighty; lively: of a horse: restive, frisky → 1807 Sc.
► GAM’LESOME frolicsome, sportive → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GAMESOME frolicsome, merry, playful, sportive → c1350
► GAMISH playful, frolicsome, sportive → 1865 Eng. dial.
► GAMMETY frolicsome, fond of games → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GAMMISH playful, frolicsome, sportive → 1865 Eng. dial.
► GAMY playful, frolicsome, sportive → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GANTY spirited, frolicsome → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GOWDY frolicsome, festive; wanton, lascivious → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► KIDDYISH frolicsome, jovial → M19 sl.
► KIPPERSOME frolicsome → 19C Eng. dial.
► LAKESOME frolicsome, playful → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAKISH frolicsome, playful → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LARKING frolicsome, sportive → 1828 colloq.
► LARKISH frolicsome → 1882 colloq.
► LARKSOME frolicsome, sportive → 1871 colloq.
► LARKY ready for a lark; frolicsome, sportive → 1851 colloq.
► MAGGOTTY frisky, playful, full of tricks, frolicsome → 1820 Eng. dial.
► MARLOCKING playful, frolicsome → 1889 Eng. dial.
► MARLOCKY playful, frolicsome → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MAY-GEMMIN frolicsome, silly, childish → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MECKANT romping, frolicsome → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► ON THE DAFFIN out for a frolic, on holiday → 1885 Sc.
► OUT ON THE SCAFF going about in an idle, frolicsome manner → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► PLISKY given to playing tricks; tricky, mischievous, frolicsome → 1887 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► RAMPING romping, frolicking, frolicsome → 1697 obs.
► RAMPISH giving to romping or frolicking → 1530 obs.
► REEZIE wild, frolicsome, partially intoxicated → 1805 Sc.
► SKITTISH spirited, active, lively; frolicsome → a1592
► TID lively, sprightly, frolicsome; skittish, restless, fidgety → 1825 Eng. dial.

ADVERBS
► GALLIMAWVERTY said of one who conducts himself in a frolicsome or frivolous way → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► ANTIC a foolish, ridiculous frolic → 1825 Sc.
► BARN’S-BREAKING a mischievous action; an idle frolic → 1822 Sc.
► BAT ► BATT a spree or frolic → 1878 US sl.
► BUM any frolic → 1904 Amer. students’ usage (Bk.)
► BUSTER a drinking spree; a reckless frolic → 1848 Amer. sl.
► CALEER a caper, a jump; frolic → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CALEEVER a caper, frolic, antic; a hubbub, a noisy game → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CALEUP a frolic, a merry trick → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CANTRIP a trick, a frolic, a piece of mischief → 1816 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► CARRYINGS-ON frolickings → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CAUKUM a practical joke, a foolish frolic → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DAFF fun, frolic; playing the fool → 1737 Sc.
► DAFTRIE fun and frolic; mirth → 1866 Sc. obs.
► DEVILMENT mischief, teasing, frolicking, roguery, trickery → 1844 Amer. dial.
► DEVILTRY mischief, teasing, frolicking, roguery, trickery, wickedness, devilry → 1839 Sc. & Amer. dial.
► FINNEY a scolding match; a share in something going on, a frolic → 1746 Eng. dial. obs.
► FLINK a pert or insolent kind of deportment; a conceited, jaunty air; a frolic, a flirtation; a good time, a ‘fling’ → 1882 Sc. & Eng. & Amer dial.
​► GAMALERIE playfulness, fun, frolic → 1818 Eng. dial. obs.
► GAMBADE a prank, freak, frolic → 1821
► GAMMET ► GAMUT fun, frolic, sport; a game, joke, whim, trick → 1865 Eng. dial.
► GAMMETTING frolicking, whims, tricks, pranks → 1873 Eng. dial.
► GAMMOCK a game, jest, piece of fun; also, fun, frolic, foolish sport → 1819 Eng. dial.
► GAND a frolic, a foolish prank → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GARRAIVERY folly, rioting of a frolicsome kind, revelling; a loud uproar → 1882 Sc.
► HANG-MAD riotous tumult; boisterous frolic → 19C Eng. dial.
► HELL-A-POPPING a drunken frolic → 19C Amer. sl.
► JAMBOREE ► JIMBOREE a frolic; a spree → 1872 sl.
► LALLACK play, frolic → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LARK a frolicsome adventure; a spree; a piece of merriment or mischief; fun of any kind; a trick → 1802 colloq.
► LARKING fun, frolic → 1813 colloq.
► MARLOCK a prank, frolic, a gambol, a lark; a playful trick, a practical joke; a piece of fun or mischief → c1746 Eng. dial.
► MAY-GAMES tricks, frolics, antics, practical jokes; whims, fancies → 1825 Eng. dial.
► MAYLOCK a prank, frolic, a lark; a trick, a practical joke → 1864 Eng. dial.
► MEG’S DIVERSIONS tricks, frolics, rattling fun → 1873 Eng. dial.
► MIRLIGOES ridiculous fancies; mad frolicsomeness, the effect of drinking → 19C  Sc.
► MORLOCK a prank, frolic, a lark; a trick, a practical joke → 1864 Eng. dial.
► ONCARRY a stir, a bustle, a to-do, a capering about, rowdy behaviour, merriment, frolic → c1850 Sc.
► PANT a prank, a frolic, a ‘lark’, a piece of fun, a caper, a piece of boyish mischief → 1894 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PLISKY a mischievous escapade; a trick, a prank; a practical joke; a frolic → 1786 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► PRINKUM-PRANKUM a prank, frolic, trick → 1596 obs.
► RAGERY raging; wantonness; a frolic → c1386 obs.
► RAMPING a frolicking, romping → 1657 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► RAMPS romps, frolics → 1747 obs.
► RANDOM-SPLORE a chance frolic → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► RANDY a frolic; a merrymaking; a drunken carousal → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RANT a boisterous, riotous frolic or merrymaking; a spree → 1675 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► REARDIE a wild frolic, a quarrel, a riot → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► REARIE ► REERIE a wild frolic, a quarrel, a riot → 1871 Sc.
► RIG a joke, a prank, a game; a playful and lively movement or activity; a frolic → 1782 Eng. dial.
► SHINDY a party or gathering, esp. a noisy one with dancing; a spree, a frolic, a shindig → 1844 Amer. dial.
► SKIRRUP a good time; a frolic → 1896 Amer. dial.
► SPRAY a spree or drinking bout; a frolic → 1813 obs.
► TEAR a piece of fun, a frolic, a spree, a lark, joke, banter → 1909 Sc.
► TRAIN a frolic, a romp → a1861 Amer. dial.
► VINNY a scolding match; a share in something going on, a frolic → 1746 Eng. dial. obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BIRD a wild and frolicsome youth → 1912 US  (Bk.)
► DOOLZIE a frolicsome and thoughtless woman → 19C Sc.
► FRATCH a rude, quarrelsome person; a playful or frolicsome child → 19C Eng. dial.
► GAMESTER a merry, sportive, or frolicsome person → 1616 obs.
► GILPEY ► GILPY a frolicsome young fellow; a roguish or mischievous boy→ 1718 Sc. obs.
► LARKER a person given to fun or mischief’; a frolicking rascal → c1825 sl.
► LARRIKIN a mischievous or frolicsome youngster; a hooligan, a hoodlum, a rowdy → 1868 sl.
► MAD GRIG an extravagantly lively person, one who is full of frolic and jest → 1638 obs.
► MAZEGERRY a wild, thoughtless, frolicsome fellow → 1816 Eng. dial.
► MAZEGERRY-PATTICK a wild, thoughtless, frolicsome fellow → 1860 Eng. dial.
► MERRY GRIG an extravagantly lively person, one who is full of frolic and jest → 1566
► RATTLE-SCAAP ► RATTLE-SCAMP ► RATTLE-SCAWP a frolicsome, mischievous person → 19C Eng. dial.
► WITCH-CAT a mischievous, high-spirited person, esp. a child; a frolicsome girl, a roguish boy → 1844 Amer. dial.

VERBS
► CALEEVER to skip, to jump, to frolic about; to run about heedlessly or foolishly → 1875 Eng. dial.
► CANAVER to frolic → 1916 Sc.
► CARRY ON to frolic → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CUT A CAPER to act in an ostentatious manner; to dance in a frolicsome way → a1616 
► CUT DIDOES to be frolicsome → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CUT UP MOLLY to act in an extravagant or frolicsome manner; to have a high time → 1942 Amer. dial. 
► CUT UP SHINES to behave in a mischievous or frolicsome manner → 1846 US
► DAFF to play the fool; to jest, to play, to sport, to frolic, esp. between the sexes → 1535 chiefly Sc.
► FLINK to romp, to frolic; to flirt → 1908 Sc. 
​► FRATCH to sport, to frolic → 19C Eng. dial.
► GAMFLE ► GAMPHLE to idle, to dally; to neglect one’s work from foolish merriment; to act foolishly like lads and lasses at a fair; to frolic, to trifle → 1808 Sc.
► GAMMET to play, to frolic, to amuse oneself; to play off practical jokes; to deceive, to hoax, to take in → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GAMMOCK to go feasting and frolicking from place to place → 1876 Eng. dial.
► GANDER-FLANK to lark about, to frolic, to gad about → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GANDER-LEG to lark about, to frolic, to gad about → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GANNICK to lark about; to play, to frolic; to loiter, to idle, to gossip → 1900 Eng. dial.   (Bk.)
► GAUSTER ► GOWSTER ► GOYSTER to behave in a noisy, boisterous, or swaggering fashion; to frolic and romp; to brag or boast; also, to laugh noisily → 1674 Eng. dial.
► GOYLTER to frolic, to romp about; to laugh aloud → 1721 Eng. dial. obs.
► HAZE to frolic, to lark → 1848 US
► JAUL ► JAWL ► JOL to play, to frolic, to have fun, to ‘party’ → 1970s S. Afr.
► KEEHOY to frolic, ‘to caper daftly’ → 1938 Sc.
► LARK to play tricks, to frolic → 1813 colloq.
► MARLOCK to play, to frolic, to gambol, to romp → 1863 Eng. dial.
► PLAY THE GIDDY GOAT ► PLAY THE GOAT to frolic, to fool about, to act irresponsibly
► RAMP to romp, to frolic, to prance → 1657 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► RANDY to frolic; to enjoy oneself; to go on the spree; to brawl → 1832 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RANT to frolic, to romp; to be jovial, boisterous, uproariously gay or merry; to lead a gay or dissolute life; also, to sing or talk loudly → 1598
► REEMLE-RAMMLE to make a great deal of noise; to behave in a noisy, frolicking manner → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► RIG to behave in an immodest or wanton manner; later: to romp, to frolic; to act or play energetically and excitedly; to clamber, to climb about → 1570 Eng. dial.
► ROIL to play or frolic, esp. in a rough manner; to romp → L18 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SCOUSE to frolic, to frisk about; to run fast → 1842 Eng. dial.
► SKIRRUP to frisk, to frolic → 1896 Amer. dial.
► TRAIN to frolic, to romp, to ‘carry on’ → 1877 Amer. dial.
► WANTONIZE to play the wanton; to dally, to sport, to frolic; to indulge in lasciviousness → 1592 arch.