rollicking
adjective
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adj
- carefree, merry and boisterous
“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.”
“The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman when he’s hauled out of the eatery against his will after consuming all of the restaurant’s shrimp (plus two plastic lobsters).”
noun
- A scolding, a bollocking.
“Thanks for explaining the situation. I'm going to give him the rollicking of his life.”
“He can give someone a right rollicking but it comes over as advice.”
verb
- present participle and gerund of rollick