Joviality vs Romp - What's the difference?
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To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
* When the kids're allowed to romp in the bedroom, they break something.
(US) (Often used with down ) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress.
* If I romp down on the gas, it'll do sixty in six seconds.
* Coach Smith had to romp on 'em to get 'em out of a losing streak.
To win easily.
* England romped to an easy win over Australia.
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(slang) To engage in playful or boisterous sex.
A period of boisterous play, a frolic.
(slang) A bout of playful or boisterous sex.
* Sex romp at Windsor castle (headline in )
(archaic) A girl who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy.
Joviality is a related term of romp.
As nouns the difference between joviality and romp
is that joviality is the state of being jovial; jollity or conviviality while romp is a period of boisterous play, a frolic.As a verb romp is
to play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.romp
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(en verb)Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- Ronald Koeman collected that prize in the run-up to this game, and then watched his team romp to their biggest victory for nearly a century, inflicting a defeat that Sunderland will struggle to forget.