rollicking• They played it as a duet, perfectly teamed, at the fast pace the piece demanded, rollicking and dramatic.• His Hal would be no rollickingdropout.• This is all good rollickingfun, though never quite clean.• It is a rollicking mock-heroic farce that burlesques the affectations of Restoration and post-Restoration heroicdrama with all its bombast and extravagance.• The Kirk's answer to the rollickingrabbis was of course Revd James Currie.• The stained-glass knights and their ladies looked down their noses at us rollickingserfs.• Everyone was in a circle now, dancing to a rollickingtune played by the small band, and changing partners.
rollicking2 noun
give somebody a rollickingBritish EnglishBrE informalTELL somebody OFF to criticize someone angrily for something they have done 把某人训斥一顿
Originrollicking
(1800-1900)rollick“to have noisy fun”((19-20 centuries)), perhaps from romp + frolic