frolic
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源自荷蘭語 vrolijk (“欢喜的”)，源自中古荷蘭語 vrolijc，源自古荷蘭語 frōlīk，源自原始日耳曼語 *frawalīkaz。对比德語 fröhlich (“开心的，快乐的”)。
前一个元素，最终源自原始日耳曼語 *frawaz并与中古英語 frow (“匆忙的”)同源；之后的元素，最终源自*-līkaz并与-ly、-like同源。
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frolic (比較級 more frolic, 最高級 most frolic)
- (現罕用) 开心的，欢快的，欢腾的，闹腾的 （自16世纪30年代）
- 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro” in Poems, London: Humphrey Moseley, p. 31,[1]
- The frolick wind that breathes the Spring,
- Zephyr with Aurora playing,
- As he met her once a Maying
- There on Beds of Violets blew,
- 1682, Edmund Waller, “Of Love” in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons, London: H. Herringman, 5th edition, 1686, p. 73,[2]
- For women, born to be controul’d,
- Stoop to the forward and the bold,
- Affect the haughty and the proud,
- The gay, the frollick, and the loud.
- 1766, Joseph Addison, The Spectator - Volume 5 - Page 304:
- You meet him at the tables and conversations of the wise, the impertinent, the grave, the frolic, and the witty; [...]
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- 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
- 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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- 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro” in Poems, London: Humphrey Moseley, p. 31,[1]
- (棄用，罕用) 慷慨的，大方的
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frolic (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 frolics, 現在分詞 frolicking, 一般過去時及過去分詞 frolicked)
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frolic (複數 frolics)
- 快乐，愉悦 （自17世纪10年代）
- 1832-1888, Louisa May Alcott
- the annual jubilee […] filled the souls of old and young with visions of splendour, frolic and fun.
- 2012 (original 1860), Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun - Page 276:
- 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.
- 1832-1888, Louisa May Alcott
- 欢闹的举动
- 1680, James Dillon, 3rd Earl of Roscommon, Art of Poetry
- He would be at his frolic once again.
- 1680, James Dillon, 3rd Earl of Roscommon, Art of Poetry
- (棄用，主要用於美國) 聚会
- 1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
- 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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- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “frolic”, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd版, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8