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rollicking

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. present participle and gerund of rollick