Frivolity is a type of clownishness or silliness. Frivolity is the opposite of getting down to business in a serious way. If people are running around a classroom, throwing things, and laughing, the teacher might say, Why all the frivolity?. This is a word for clowning or horsing around â not being serious.
The definition of whilom is something former, or that once was. 1  An example of something whilom is a friend that you were close to in middle school. 2  An example of something whilom is a job that you once had.
coarse, vulgar, violent, or abusive language. [Allusion to the scurrilous language used in Billingsgate market, London.]. Briticism. a word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of or restricted to British English. Also called Britishism. word or expression characteristic of the Danish language. demotic. 1. of or relating to the common people; popular. 2. of, pertaining to, or noting the simplified form of hieratic writing used in ancient Egypt. 3. (cap.) of, belonging to, or connected with modern colloquial Greek.