It's Merriam Webster's word of the day for October 22nd.

Today's word is frolic, spelled F-R-O-L-I-C. Frollic is a verb. To Frollick is to play and

move about happily. Here's the word used in a

sentence from Mashable. Harper's consciousness ends up in the body of her mom, Anna. Lily body swaps

with her soon-to-be-grandma Tess and vice versa, meaning Lohan and Curtis are playing teens again.

While their younger co-stars mug sternly make jokes about regaining

a metabolism, the speed of light, and frolic on electric scooters,

Freaky Friday's dynamic duo fling themselves into silly sequences.

Frolick is a word rooted in pleasure.

Its most common function today is as a verb meaning to play and move about happily, as in children frolicking in the waters.

But it joined the language in the 16th century as an adjective, carrying the meaning of its Dutch source Vrolik, full of fun or merry. Shakespeare's

Puck used it this way in a midsummer night's dream, saying, and we fairies following darkness

like a dream now are frolic. Verb use quickly followed, and by the early 17th century, the word

was also being used as a noun, as in an evening of fun and

frolic. With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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