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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-979/
- Published: 2022-10-04T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-03T18:25:58.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

The word for today is…

frolic (adjective, verb, noun):

*adjective*  
: full of fun

*verb*  
1 : to amuse oneself : make merry  
2 : to play and run about happily

*noun*  
1 : a playful or mischievous action  
2a : an occasion or scene of fun  
b : fun, merriment

Source : Merriam -Webster

Etymology :Frolic is a word rooted in pleasure. Its most common function today is as a verb meaning “to play and run about happily,” as in “children frolicking in the waves,” but it joined the language in the 16th century as an adjective carrying the meaning of its Dutch source vroolijk: “full of fun; merry.” Shakespeare’s Puck used it this way in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, saying “And we fairies … following darkness like a dream, now are frolic.” Verb use quickly followed, and by the early 17th century the word was also being used as a noun, as in “an evening of fun and frolic.”

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