frolicly

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English

Etymology

From frolic +‎ -ly.

Adverb

frolicly (comparative more frolicly, superlative most frolicly)

(obsolete) In a frolicsome manner; gaily or joyfully.
- c. 1623–1624 – 1630s, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Lovers Progres”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 74, column 2:
  Comming to ſee you, I was ſet upon, / I and my men, as we were ſinging frolickly, / Not dreaming of an ambuſh of baſe rogues, / Set on ith' forreſt, [...]
- 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:
  After some dys frolicly spent at Bath, he returned to his former temper
- 1858, Richard Hooper (translator), Homer (original), Batrachomyomachia:
  But, from a banquet that the Gods have blest
  In men whose spirits are frolicly inclin'd,
  Perform those rights that propagate thy kind.

References

“frolicly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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