Delightful vs Rollicking - What's the difference?
delightful | rollicking | Related terms |
Pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure.
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*:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
(UK) A scolding, a bollocking.
* 2004 . Richard Ayoade as Dean Leaner in "Once Upon a Beginning", Garth Marenghi's Darkplace episode 1
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carefree, merry and boisterous
* {{quote-news
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, work=The Onion AV Club
Delightful is a related term of rollicking.
As adjectives the difference between delightful and rollicking
is that delightful is pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure while rollicking is carefree, merry and boisterous.As a verb rollicking is
.As a noun rollicking is
(uk) a scolding, a bollocking.delightful
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Alternative forms
* delightfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)rollicking
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Thanks for explaining the situation. I'm going to give him the rollicking of his life.
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=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).}}
