Romp vs Frolic - What's the difference?
romp | frolic |
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.
* 2014 , , "
(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.
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.
Frolic is a synonym of romp.
In intransitive terms the difference between romp and frolic
is that romp is to play about roughly, energetically or boisterously while frolic is to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.As an adjective frolic is
merry, joyous; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.romp
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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.
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* romper suit * romp home * rompers * rompy * romper room * romping goodAnagrams
* ----frolic
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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.