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rollicksome - definition and meaning
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Hyper-suave in a top hat and tux was Dominic Lopez of Harlingen, Tex., who couldn't have asked for a more rollicksome finale to his first inauguration.
Annie Groer: Report From The Mayflower Hotel Lobby On Inauguration Night 2009
He is a rollicksome stylist, though some readers may find his tone a tad too jokey at times.
Uncouth, Unheeded Alan Pell Crawford 2008
From a frolicsome, rollicksome , freckle-faced boy!
The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems George W. Doneghy
He was a great lover of out-door sports, and no game or camp amusement was ever complete without this rollicksome , good-natured knight of the playground.
History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert
From a frolicsome, rollicksome , freckle-faced boy!
The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems George W. Doneghy
Spells and incantations have been intruded in the place of trust and prayer; the prayerful abstinence of a vigil has been exchanged for the rollicksome enjoyment of wakes; reverence may have run incidentally to puerile extravagance; and patrons may have been chosen before their claim to an heroic exercise of Christian virtue had been juridically established.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
Let him see one of the little white beds where he will sleep after you return home, the sunny dining room where he will eat his morning porridge and his Sunday ice cream; the playground full of rollicksome youngsters, with whom he will seesaw and play tag by and by, and the busy schoolroom, where so many delightful and interesting things are sure to happen.
What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know John Dutton Wright 1909
He wasn't "bad" -- only he had a rollicksome , flamboyant energy that inundated everything, and made his absence often a blessing devoutly to be wished.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists Elbert Hubbard 1885
These rollicksome , frolicsome, dimpled boy babies -- and that they are boys is a fact which I trust will not be denied -- he has them everywhere!
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists Elbert Hubbard 1885
But his roving, rollicksome disposition predominated over his better qualities, and careless of his own; he was greatly harrassed in pecuniary matters.
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884
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