different between joviality vs romp

English

Etymology

From French jovialité

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æl?ti

Noun

joviality (countable and uncountable, plural jovialities)

1. The state of being jovial; jollity or conviviality.
   • 1651, Fulgenzio Micanzio, The Life of the Most Learned Father Paul, Of the Order of the Servie, translator not credited, London: Humphrey Moseley and Richard Marriot, p. 13,^[1]

     The Duke […] willingly interposed the pleasures of wit and facetiousnesse with the grave cares of his government, tempering wisely his troubles with Joviality of words and actions […]

   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter 5,^[2]

     I noticed that Mr. Pumblechook in his hospitality appeared to forget that he had made a present of the wine, but took the bottle from Mrs. Joe and had all the credit of handing it about in a gush of joviality.

   • 1881, Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper, Chapter 10,^[3]

     This remark sobered the father’s joviality, and brought his mind to business.

   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, Chapter 24, IV,^[4]

     By the joviality of their insults Babbitt knew that he had been taken back to their hearts, and happily he rose.

   • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part Two, Chapter 6,

     Joviality fled from the table, Shekhar studied his cards. Owad frowned at his. His foot was tapping on the concrete floor. More watchers came.

   • 2014, Benjamin Poore, “Carry on campus: The satirical needling deflates the high-minded ideals of the groves of academy,” The Independent, 6 November, 2014,^[5]

     Success on social media tends to instil in the early career academics and postgraduates who achieve it, after merciless encouragement from outreach and impact gurus in HE management, a kind of unwavering, po-faced self-belief in their own genius and thus the vital urgency of their research, the overall effect being a strange mixture of corporate cynicism and uneasy joviality.

Translations

English

Etymology

Probably a variant of ramp.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mp

Verb

romp (third-person singular simple present romps, present participle romping, simple past and past participle romped)

1. (intransitive) To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
   • When the kids're allowed to romp in the bedroom, they break something.
2. (transitive, US) (Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress.
   • If I romp down on the gas, it'll do sixty in six seconds.
   • Coach Smith had to romp on 'em to get 'em out of a losing streak.
3. To win easily.
   • England romped to an easy win over Australia.
   • 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:

     Ronald Koeman collected that prize in the run-up to this game, and then watched his team romp to their biggest victory for nearly a century, inflicting a defeat that Sunderland will struggle to forget.

4. (slang) To engage in playful or boisterous sex.

Translations

Noun

romp (plural romps)

1. (now archaic) Someone who romps; especially, a girl or young woman who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy. [from 17th c.]
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 57:

     I will venture to affirm, that a girl, whose spirits have not been damped by inactivity, or innocence tainted by false shame, will always be a romp, and the doll will never excite attention unless confinement allows her no alternative.

2. A period of boisterous play, a frolic; now especially, a bout of sexual activity, especially when illicit. [from 18th c.]
   • Sex romp at Windsor castle (headline in The Sun)
3. An enjoyable, fast-paced but essentially inconsequential film, play, or other piece of entertainment. [from 19th c.]
4. (chiefly sports) A decisive victory; a game, match etc. which is won easily. [from 20th c.]

Derived terms

Related terms

• rumpus

Translations

Anagrams

• PROM, Prom, prom

Afrikaans

Noun

romp (plural rompe)

1. skirt

Catalan

Verb

romp

1. third-person singular present indicative form of rompre
2. second-person singular imperative form of rompre

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

romp m (plural rompen, diminutive rompje n)

1. trunk, torso
2. (ship) hull