Lark [noun]

The biggest changes are in grassland species, especially sparrows, blackbirds and larks.

One Saturday night, my wife and I returned from a dinner out, and as a lark, I suggested we walk down to our community dock to see if anyone was there, cast-netting for shrimp.

In 2008, Myint was a line cook at Bar Tartine when he started selling $5 “PB&Js”—pork belly and jicama flatbreads—from a taco cart he and Leibowitz had borrowed on a lark.

Hence Shakespeare speaks of 'the lark, that tirra-lyra chants,' Wint.

High overhead a lark was pouring out its song; in the lane at the orchard end rang the beat of trotting hoofs.

Or how is it that grass grows in the fields, and the lark sings in the sky, and the trees lose their leaves in winter?

He was as gay as a lark, humming an Oppra tune, and twizzting round his head his hevy gold-headed cane.

Up we marched to our apartmince, me carrying the light and the cloax, master hummink a hair out of the oppra, as merry as a lark.

We might also call a cross person a "bear," but should not without some explanation call a person a "lark" or a "bee."

But when my next allowance came I went out on a lark, and we did some damage that we had to pay for.