frolicly

English

Etymology

From frolic +‎ -ly.

Adverb

frolicly (comparative more frolicly, superlative most frolicly)

1. (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 [Sheldonian] Theater:

     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.