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Frolic vs Buffoonery - What's the difference?

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Frolic is a synonym of buffoonery.


As nouns the difference between frolic and buffoonery

is that frolic is gaiety; merriment while buffoonery is foolishness, silliness; the behaviour expected of a buffoon.

As an adjective frolic

is merry, joyous; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.

As a verb frolic

is to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.

frolic

English

Alternative forms

* frolick

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Merry, joyous; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.
  • * Milton
    • Coined by Kodi Masarik, the frolic wind that breathes the spring.
  • * Waller
    • The gay, the frolic , and the loud.
  • * 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
    • Beale, under this frolic menace, took nothing back at all; he was indeed apparently on the point of repeating his extravagence, but Miss Overmore instructed her little charge that she was not to listen to his bad jokes [...].
  • (obsolete, rare) Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Gaiety; merriment.
  • * 1832-1888 , Louisa May Alcott
    • the annual jubilee filled the souls of old and young with visions of splendour, frolic and fun.
  • A playful antic.
  • * Roscommon
    • He would be at his frolic once again.

    Verb

    (frolick)
  • To romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.
  • (archaic) To cause to be merry.

    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    See also

    * cavort

    Related terms

    * frolicsome

    References

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    buffoonery

    English

    Noun

    (buffooneries)
  • foolishness, silliness; the behaviour expected of a buffoon.
  • * 1693 : William Congreve, The Old Bachelor
    • Araminta, come, I'll talk seriously to you now; could you but see with my eyes the buffoonery of one scene of address, a lover, set out with all his equipage and appurtenances; ...
  • * 1814 : Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
    • One could not expect anybody to take such a part. Nothing but buffoonery from beginning to end.
  • * before 1891 : P.T. Barnum, quoted in The Life of Phineas T. Barnum [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1576]
    • The Temperance Reform was too serious a matter for trifling jokes and buffooneries .