word of the day :: skylark

skylark:

[skahy-lahrk]

–noun

1. a brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.

-verb (used without object)

2. to frolic; sport: The children were skylarking on the beach.

  

Origin:

1680-90; sky  + lark¹

"Tom took his whipping and went back to his seat not at all broken-hearted, for he thought it was possible that he had unknowingly upset the ink on the spelling-book himself, in some skylarking bout--he had denied it for form's sake and because it was custom, he had stuck to the denial from principle."

:: Mark Twain ::

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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