colloq. [f. LARK v.2 + -ING2.] That larks; frolicsome, sportive.
1828. J. H. Newman, Lett. (1891), I. 182. I have learned to leap … which is a larking thing for a don.
1848. Thackeray, Bk. Snobs, x. The ‘larking’ or raffish Military Snob.
1889. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Robbery under Arms (1890), 330. Maddie was in one of her larking humours.
Hence Larkingly adv.
1896. H. W. Wolf, in Contemp. Rev., Aug., 204. Larkingly engaging in acrobatics.
