frolic

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɒlɪk/
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• General-American: /ˈfɹɑlɪk/
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• rhymes with -ɒlɪk
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From Dutch vrolijk (“cheerful”), from Middle Dutch vrolijc, from Old Dutch frōlīk, from Proto-Germanic *frawalīkaz. Compare German fröhlich (“blitheful, gaily, happy, merry”). The first element, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *frawaz, is cognate with Middle English frow (“hasty”); the latter element, ultimately from *-līkaz, is cognate with -ly, -like.

83 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: веселие (veselie) — gaiety; merriment
• Bulgarian: веселба (veselba) — gaiety; merriment
• Galician: troula — gaiety; merriment
• Italian: burla — gaiety; merriment
• Italian: beffa — gaiety; merriment
• Italian: allegria — gaiety; merriment
• Italian: gaiezza — gaiety; merriment
• Portuguese: festejo — gaiety; merriment
• Russian: весе́лье (vesélʹje) — gaiety; merriment
• Sicilian: babbiju — gaiety; merriment
• Sicilian: jocu — gaiety; merriment
• Spanish: jugueteo — gaiety; merriment
• Bulgarian: лудория (ludorija) — playful antic
• Estonian: vallatlemine — playful antic
• Finnish: temmellys — playful antic
• Finnish: kisailu — playful antic
• Galician: troula — playful antic
• German: Scherz — playful antic
• Italian: buffonata — playful antic
• Māori: tuapa — playful antic
• Portuguese: gracejo — playful antic
• Sicilian: babbarijata — playful antic
• Spanish: jugueteo — playful antic
• Bulgarian: лудувам (luduvam) — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Catalan: enjogassar-se — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Cherokee: ᎠᏁᏦᏍᎦ (anetsosga) — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Chinese Cantonese: 嬉戲 /嬉戏 (hei1 hei3) — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Chinese: 嬉戲 /嬉戏 (hi-hì) — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Chinese Mandarin: 嫐 (nǎo) — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Chinese Mandarin: 嬉戲 /嬉戏 (xīxì) — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Czech: dovádět — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Dutch: plezier maken — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Dutch: dollen — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Dutch: pret maken — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Dutch: keten — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Dutch: rollebollen — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Dutch: dartelen — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Esperanto: gaji — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Estonian: vallatlema — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Finnish: temmeltää — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Finnish: kisailla — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Finnish: ilotella — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Finnish: karkeloida — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• French: folâtrer — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• French: gambader — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Galician: troulear — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Georgian: მხიარულობს (mxiarulobs) — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Georgian: ნავარდობს (navardobs) — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Georgian: ცელქობს (celkobs) — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Georgian: ანცობს (ancobs) — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Georgian: ციგლიგებს (cigligebs) — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• German: scherzen — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Ancient Greek: σκιρτάω (skirtáō) — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Hungarian: ugrándozik — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Hungarian: szökdécsel — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Hungarian: ficánkol — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Hungarian: viháncol — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Hungarian: ugrabugrál — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Hungarian: szökell — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Hungarian: fickándozik — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Hungarian: hancúrozik — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Hungarian: kergetőzik — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Hungarian: rajcsúrozik — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Hungarian: bolondozik — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Hungarian: mókázik — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Italian: scherzare — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Japanese: 浮かれ騒ぐ (ukare sawagu) — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Māori: pepe — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Māori: tākarokaro — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Māori: pūhoru — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Māori: tuapa — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Polish: baraszkować — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Polish: dokazywać — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Polish: figlować — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Polish: swawolić — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Portuguese: retouçar — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Russian: резви́ться (rezvítʹsja) — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Russian: прока́зничать (prokázničatʹ) — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Slovak: hrať sa — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Spanish: juguetear — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Spanish: retozar — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Spanish: saltimbanquear — behave playfully and uninhibitedly
• Swedish: leka — behave playfully and uninhibitedly