adv. Obs. Also frolickly. [f. FROLIC a. + -LY2.] In a frolic manner; mirthfully.
1592. Greene, Upst. Courtier, G ij. A mad merrie crue … leping ouer the field, as frolikly as if they ought not all the world two pence.
1658. Rowland, Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 1102. The Fox gathers some handfulls of wool from thorns and briars, and wrapping it up, he holds it fast in his mouth, then he goes by degrees into a cold River, and dipping himself in by little and little, when he finds that all the fleas are crept so high as his head for fear of drowning, and so for shelter crept into the wooll, he barks and spits out the wooll full of Fleas, and so very froliquely being delivered from their molestation, he swims to land.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., IX. § 14. But, after some days frolickly spent at Bath, he return’d to his former temper.
