horseplay

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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A compound of horse + play, possibly from observation of boisterous horses playing, or from its attributive sense "strong, big or coarse".

This grewsome horseplay in Europe's front yard would start it. — Erik Dorn, Ben Hecht
The bridegroom is fair game all the world over for the Rabelaisian jest and the clown's horseplay. — The Dop Doctor, Richard Dehan
The children—two girls and a boy, conscious of their father’s helplessness and of their mother’s absence, began some horseplay with him. — Dubliners, James Joyce

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