Frolic vs Tittup - What's the difference?
frolic | tittup |
Merry, joyous; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.
* Milton
* Waller
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
(obsolete, rare) Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.
Gaiety; merriment.
* 1832-1888 , Louisa May Alcott
A playful antic.
* Roscommon
To romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.
(archaic) To cause to be merry.
To prance or frolic; of a horse, to canter easily.
*1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 186:
*:I felt a fool and was much relieved when I saw the back of Mr Bellerby as he tit-tupped away to Cowslake Manor after pressing me to accept a cheroot about eight inches long out of a crocodile-skin case.
In lang=en terms the difference between frolic and tittup
is that frolic is to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly while tittup is to prance or frolic; of a horse, to canter easily.As nouns the difference between frolic and tittup
is that frolic is gaiety; merriment while tittup is a caper, or canter.As verbs the difference between frolic and tittup
is that frolic is to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly while tittup is to prance or frolic; of a horse, to canter easily.As an adjective frolic
is merry, joyous; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.frolic
English
Alternative forms
* frolickAdjective
(en adjective)- Coined by Kodi Masarik, the frolic wind that breathes the spring.
- The gay, the frolic , and the loud.
- 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 [...].
Noun
(en noun)- the annual jubilee filled the souls of old and young with visions of splendour, frolic and fun.
- He would be at his frolic once again.