Verb

rollick (third-person singular simple present rollicks, present participle rollicking, simple past and past participle rollicked)Category:English lemmas#ROLLICKCategory:English verbs#ROLLICKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ROLLICKCategory:Pages with entries#ROLLICKCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ROLLICK

1. To behave in a playful or carefree manner; to frolic or romp.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 34, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 163:

     But the third Emir, now seeing himself all alone on the quarter-deck, seems to feel relieved from some curious restraint; for, tipping all sorts of knowing winks in all sorts of directions, and kicking off his shoes, he strikes into a sharp but noiseless squall of a hornpipe right over the Grand Turk’s head; and then, by a dexterous sleight, pitching his cap up into the mizentop for a shelf, he goes down rollicking so far at least as he remains visible from the deck, reversing all other processions, by bringing up the rear with music.

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Alternative forms

• rollock

Verb

rollick (third-person singular simple present rollicks, present participle rollicking, simple past and past participle rollicked)Category:English lemmas#ROLLICKCategory:English verbs#ROLLICKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ROLLICKCategory:Pages with entries#ROLLICKCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ROLLICK

1. (euphemisticCategory:English euphemisms#ROLLICK, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ROLLICK) To reprimand.

Noun

rollick (plural rollicks)Category:English lemmas#ROLLICKCategory:English nouns#ROLLICKCategory:English countable nouns#ROLLICKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ROLLICKCategory:Pages with entries#ROLLICKCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ROLLICK

1. Alternative form of rowlock.