lark

noun

1. 1

   Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.

2. 2

   Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.

3. 3

   One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.

4. 4

   A jolly or peppy person.

   Charles Randolph Grean is married to pop lark and multi-hit artist Betty Johnson.

verb

1. 1

   To catch larks (a type of bird).

   to go larking

noun

1. 1

   A frolic or romp, some fun.

   ‘Ha! ha!’ laughed Master Bates, ‘what a lark that would be, wouldn’t it, Fagin? I say, how the Artful would bother ’em wouldn’t he?’

   “Oh, dear, no,” said the young Englishman; “my cousin was coming over on some business, so I just came across, at an hour’s notice, for the lark.”

   Thanks partly to Tom Wolfe’s raised-eyebrow account, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” that bohemian lark has been retrospectively hailed as the flash point of the emerging hippie counterculture.

   What began as a lark has grown into something very, very big, inflating the company’s ambitions.

2. 2

   A prank.

   doolittle. […] [T]hanks to your silly joking, he leaves me a share in his Pre-digested Cheese Trust worth three thousand a year on condition that I lecture for his Wannafeller Moral Reform World League as often as they ask me up to six times a year. / higgins. The devil he does! Whew! [Brightening suddenly] What a lark!

verb

1. 1

   To sport, engage in harmless pranking.

   [T]hey laugh at us old boys,” thought old Pendennis. And he was not far wrong; the times and manners which he admired were pretty nearly gone—the gay young men “larked” him irreverently […]

   […] the porter at the rail-road had seen a scuffle; or when he found it was likely to bring him in as a witness, then it might not have been a scuffle, only a little larking […]

2. 2

   To frolic, engage in carefree adventure.

Forms

plural

larks

past tense

larked

past participle

larked

present participle

larking

third person singular

larks