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"ref": "1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems, London: Humphrey Moseley, page 31",
"text": "The frolick wind that breathes the Spring,\nZephyr with Aurora playing,\nAs he met her once a Maying\nThere on Beds of Violets blew,",
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"ref": "1682, Edmund Waller, “Of Love”, in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons, 5th edition, London: H. Herringman, published 1686, page 73",
"text": "For women, born to be controul’d,\nStoop to the forward and the bold,\nAffect the haughty and the proud,\nThe gay, the frollick, and the loud.",
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"ref": "1766, Joseph Addison, The Spectator - Volume 5 - Page 304",
"text": "You meet him at the tables and conversations of the wise, the impertinent, the grave, the frolic, and the witty; [...]",
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"ref": "1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew",
"text": "Beale, under this frolic menace, took nothing back at all; he was indeed apparently on the point of repeating his extravagence, but Miss Overmore instructed her little charge that she was not to listen to his bad jokes [...].",
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"Merry, joyous, full of mirth; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief."
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"Free; liberal; bountiful; generous."
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"To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly."
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"have fun"
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"(intransitive) To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly."
],
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "luduvam",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "лудувам"
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{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "enjogassar-se"
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{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "anetsosga",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ᎠᏁᏦᏍᎦ"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "嬉戲"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "hei¹ hei³",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "嬉戏"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"tags": [
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"word": "嬉戲"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "hi-hì",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
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"word": "嬉戏"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "nǎo",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "嫐"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "嬉戲"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xīxì",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "嬉戏"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "plezier maken"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "dollen"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "pret maken"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "keten"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "rollebollen"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "dartelen"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "gaji"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "vallatlema"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "temmeltää"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "kisailla"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ilotella"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "karkeloida"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "folâtrer"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "gambader"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "troulear"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mxiarulobs",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "მხიარულობს"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "navardobs",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ნავარდობს"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "celkobs",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ცელქობს"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ancobs",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ანცობს"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "cigligebs",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ციგლიგებს"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "scherzen"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "skirtáō",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "σκιρτάω"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "hu",
"english": "by moving",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ugrándozik"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "szökdécsel"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ficánkol"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "viháncol"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ugrabugrál"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "szökell"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "fickándozik"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "hancúrozik"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "kergetőzik"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "rajcsúrozik"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "bolondozik"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "mókázik"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "scherzare"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"alt": "うかれさわぐ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ukare sawagu",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "浮かれ騒ぐ"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "pepe"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "tākarokaro"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"note": "in water",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "pūhoru"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "tuapa"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "baraszkować"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "dokazywać"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "figlować"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "swawolić"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "retouçar"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rezvítʹsja",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "резви́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prokázničatʹ",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "прока́зничать"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "hrať sa"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "juguetear"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "retozar"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "leka"
}
]
},
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"To cause to be merry."
],
"id": "en-frolic-en-verb-~2XBTkNC",
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[
"merry",
"merry"
]
],
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"(transitive, archaic) To cause to be merry."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"transitive"
]
}
],
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{
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]
},
{
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"text": "We saw the lambs frolicking in the meadow.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly."
],
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[
"make merry",
"make merry"
],
[
"have fun",
"have fun"
],
[
"romp",
"romp"
],
[
"behave",
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],
[
"playfully",
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"(intransitive) To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly."
],
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"intransitive"
]
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],
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"To cause to be merry."
],
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[
"merry",
"merry"
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],
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"(transitive, archaic) To cause to be merry."
],
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"ipa": "/ˈfɹɒlɪk/",
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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},
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"General-American"
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],
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"word": "frolick"
}
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "luduvam",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "лудувам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "enjogassar-se"
},
{
"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "anetsosga",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ᎠᏁᏦᏍᎦ"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "嬉戲"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "hei¹ hei³",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "嬉戏"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "嬉戲"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
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"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
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"word": "嬉戏"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "nǎo",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "嫐"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "嬉戲"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xīxì",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "嬉戏"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "plezier maken"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "dollen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "pret maken"
},
{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "keten"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "rollebollen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "dartelen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "gaji"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "vallatlema"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "temmeltää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "kisailla"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ilotella"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "karkeloida"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "folâtrer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "gambader"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "troulear"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mxiarulobs",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "მხიარულობს"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "navardobs",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ნავარდობს"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "celkobs",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ცელქობს"
},
{
"code": "ka",
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"roman": "ancobs",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ანცობს"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "cigligebs",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ციგლიგებს"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "scherzen"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "skirtáō",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "σκιρτάω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"english": "by moving",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ugrándozik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
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},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ficánkol"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "viháncol"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "ugrabugrál"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "szökell"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "fickándozik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "hancúrozik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "kergetőzik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "rajcsúrozik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "mókázik"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "scherzare"
},
{
"alt": "うかれさわぐ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ukare sawagu",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "浮かれ騒ぐ"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "pepe"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "tākarokaro"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"note": "in water",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "pūhoru"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "tuapa"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "tākarokaro"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "baraszkować"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "dokazywać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "figlować"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "swawolić"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "retouçar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rezvítʹsja",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "резви́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prokázničatʹ",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "прока́зничать"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "hrať sa"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "juguetear"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "retozar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "behave playfully and uninhibitedly",
"word": "leka"
}
],
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}
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"English terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"English terms derived from Old Dutch",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leyg- (like)",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *prew-",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Requests for review of Japanese translations",
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{
"word": "turtle frolic"
}
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"ref": "1876, Louisa May Alcott, “The King of Clubs and the Queen of Hearts”, in Hallberger's Illustrated Magazine: 1876",
"text": "the annual jubilee […] filled the souls of old and young with visions of splendour, frolic and fun.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012 (original 1860), Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun - Page 276",
"text": "By the old-fashioned magnificence of this procession, it might worthily have included his Holiness in person, with a suite of attendant Cardinals, if those sacred dignitaries would kindly have lent their aid to heighten the frolic of the Carnival."
}
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"ref": "1680, James Dillon, 3rd Earl of Roscommon, Art of Poetry",
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"ref": "1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow",
"text": "He came clattering up to the school door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry-making or “quilting frolic,” to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel’s",
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"word": "frolick"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "veselie",
"sense": "gaiety; merriment",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "веселие"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "veselba",
"sense": "gaiety; merriment",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "веселба"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "gaiety; merriment",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "troula"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "gaiety; merriment",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "burla"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "gaiety; merriment",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "beffa"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "gaiety; merriment",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "allegria"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "gaiety; merriment",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gaiezza"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "gaiety; merriment",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "festejo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "gaiety; merriment",
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"neuter"
],
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},
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"sense": "gaiety; merriment",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jugueteo"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ludorija",
"sense": "playful antic",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лудория"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "playful antic",
"word": "vallatlemine"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "playful antic",
"word": "temmellys"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "playful antic",
"word": "kisailu"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "playful antic",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "troula"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "playful antic",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Scherz"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "playful antic",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "buffonata"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "playful antic",
"word": "tuapa"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "playful antic",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gracejo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "playful antic",
"word": "juguetear"
}
],
"word": "frolic"
}
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