skylark

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small brown bird known for singing while flying high into the air.

   A skylark rose from the field, singing as it climbed into the morning sky.

2. 2
   verb

   To play and have fun in a noisy, carefree way.

   The children were skylarking in the garden instead of doing their homework.

From sky + lark. Verb sense 1809, originally nautical, possibly influenced by northern English dialectal term lake/laik (“to play”) (from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)); see lark for details.

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