rollicking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of rollick

noun

1. (UK)A scolding, a bollocking.

   “Thanks for explaining the situation. I'm going to give him the rollicking of his life.”

   “He can give someone a right rollicking but it comes over as advice.”

   “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.”

adj

1. carefree, merry and boisterous

   “Tin Maung gave an order and in due course the head-waiter arrived, a rollicking Shan with shining bald head and Manchu moustaches, carrying a dish heaped with scrawny chickens' limbs, jaundiced with curry, a bowl of rice and a couple of aluminium plates.”

   “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).”