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.
1. a child who spends most of his time in the streets, esp in a slum area. 2. a person regarded as having the behaviour, morals, etc, of one brought up in squalor. [C19: originally a name applied to the common snipe (the bird), then to a person who gathered refuse from gutters in city streets] ËgutterËsnipish adj.