rollicking

present participle and gerund of rollickform-ofgerundparticiple

A scolding, a bollocking.UK

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

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 alu
• 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 insatia