skylark
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Definition of skylark
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.
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noun
- A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.
verb
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(dated)To jump about joyfully, frolic; to play around, play tricks.
“I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.”
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Etymology
From sky + lark. Verb sense 1809, originally nautical, possibly influenced by northern English dialectal term lake/laik (“to play”) (from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)); see lark for details.
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