Rollicking

Quick meaning: Rollicking is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of rollick.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of rollick.

More Meanings

1. (UK) A scolding, a bollocking.
2. carefree, merry and boisterous

Example Sentences

He can give someone a right rollicking but it comes over as advice.

Thanks for explaining the situation. I'm going to give him the rollicking of his life.

That night, back at the billet, Corporal Banks summoned me to his room and there I stood to attention, whilst he gave me a roasting for getting him a rollicking from the sergeant.

Tin Maung gave an order and in due course the head-waiter arrived, a rollicking Shan with shining bald head and Manchu moustaches, carrying a dish heaped with scrawny chickens' limbs, jaundiced with curry, a bowl of rice and a couple of aluminium plates.

Word Forms

• rollocking
• rollickings

Synonyms for rollicking

Depending on context, synonyms include rollicksome, playful, coltish, sportive, frolicsome.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include coltish, frolicsome, playful, sportive, rollocking, licking.

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