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Frolic vs Escapade - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between frolic and escapade

is that frolic is gaiety; merriment while escapade is a daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.

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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    escapade

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
  • * 1724 , :
    • The Manner of living among the Portugueze here is, with the utmost Frugality and Temperance. . . . The best of them (excepting the Governor now and then) neither pay nor receive any Visits of Escapade or Recreation.
  • * 1816 , , The Antiquary - Volume II , ch. 9:
    • [Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. "Is the devil in him," was his first exclamation, "to go to disturb the brute?"
  • * 1918 , , Piccadilly Jim , ch. 1:
    • He is always doing something to make himself notorious. There was that breach-of-promise case, and that fight at the political meeting, and his escapades at Monte Carlo.
  • * 2011 March 4, , " The Adjustment Bureau''" (film review), ''Time (retrieved 23 March 2014):
    • He seems on the verge of winning the New York Senate election when the New York Post runs a photo of David’s exposed butt in a mooning escapade from his college days.