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Frolic vs Stumble - What's the difference?

frolic | stumble |

In lang=en terms the difference between frolic and stumble

is that frolic is to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly while stumble is to cause to stumble or trip.

As nouns the difference between frolic and stumble

is that frolic is gaiety; merriment while stumble is a fall, trip or substantial misstep.

As verbs the difference between frolic and stumble

is that frolic is to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly while stumble is to trip or fall; to walk clumsily.

As an adjective frolic

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

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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    stumble

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
  • An error or blunder.
  • A clumsy walk.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}

    Synonyms

    * (a blunder) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, thinko * See also

    Verb

    (stumbl)
  • To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • He stumbled up the dark avenue.
  • *
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.}}
  • To make a mistake or have trouble.
  • To cause to stumble or trip.
  • (figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
  • * Milton
    • False and dazzling fires to stumble men.
  • * John Locke
    • One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.
  • To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .
  • * Dryden
    • Ovid stumbled , by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath.
  • * C. Smart
    • Forth as she waddled in the brake, / A grey goose stumbled on a snake.

    Derived terms

    * * * *

    See also

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    Anagrams

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