noun
skylark
SKEYE-lahk
noun
1
A small brown European bird known for singing while flying high in the air.
"A skylark sang overhead as we walked across the meadow."
verb
1
(informal) To play around or fool about joyfully.
"The sailors were skylarking on deck during their break."
How to Use Skylark
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA songbird that sings high in the sky — or, informally, to mess about playfully.
Word Forms
skylarked past tense, skylarks plural, skylarks singular
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Etymology
From "sky" plus "lark" (the bird); the verb sense arose around 1809 among sailors, possibly influenced by a northern English dialect word for "to play".