Rollicking

Verb

1. Present participle of rollick

Full definition of rollicking

Noun

1. (UK) A scolding, a bollocking.
• 2004. Richard Ayoade as Dean Leaner in "Once Upon a Beginning", Garth Marenghi's Darkplace episode 1Thanks for explaining the situation. I'm going to give him the rollicking of his life.
• 2006, James Russell, Fortune and Power, He can give someone a right rollicking but it comes over as advice.
• 2011, Johnny Barrs, From Rags to Rags, That night, back at the billet, Corporal Banks summoned me to his room and there I stood to attention, whilst he gave me a roasting for getting him a rollicking from the sergeant.

Adjective

1. carefree, merry and boisterous
• 2012, May 27, Nathan Rabin, TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992), The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman when he’s hauled out of the eatery against his will after consuming all of the restaurant’s shrimp (plus two plastic lobsters).

Synonyms

• rollicksome