skylarking
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
skylarking
- present participle and gerund of skylark
Noun[edit]
skylarking (countable and uncountable, plural skylarkings)
- (originally nautical) Playing around; frolicking; originally, running about the rigging of a vessel for fun; horseplay.
- 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities:
- […] those gods and men whose titles to eminence are secure, seldom worry themselves about the seditious gossip of old apple-women, and the skylarkings of funny little boys in the street.