Frisk vs Romp - What's the difference?
frisk | romp |
Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.
To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap.
To search somebody by feeling his or her body and clothing.
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.
As nouns the difference between frisk and romp
is that frisk is a frolic; a fit of wanton gaiety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap while romp is a period of boisterous play, a frolic.As verbs the difference between frisk and romp
is that frisk is to frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap while romp is to play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.As an adjective frisk
is lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.frisk
English
Adjective
(head)- (Bishop Hall)
Verb
(en verb)- The police frisked the suspiciously-acting individual and found a knife as well as a bag of marijuana.
Derived terms
* stop-and-friskUsage notes
* The term frisk'' is slightly less formal than ''search .Anagrams
* ----romp
English
Verb
(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.