Difference between Spirited and Knockabout

SPIRITED vs KNOCKABOUT: NOUN

Workers habitually engaged in casual employment.
Clothing suitable for rough use.
A tumbler.
A slapstick comedy or comedian.
A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area
A sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit
A man hired on a sheep station to do odd jobs.
A knockabout performer or performance.
A small yacht, generally from fifteen to twenty-five feet in length, having a mainsail and a jib; a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit. All knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard. The original type was twenty-one feet in length. The next larger type is called a raceabout.
A small sloop with a mainsail, jib, and keel but no bowsprit.
A small launch.
A small sailing-yacht of light construction and simple sail rig, the latter consisting of a mainsail and a jib bent on a stay that is set up on the stem of the boat. These boats, as a rule, are flat-bottomed, with a fin-keel, and can be handled very quickly, going from one tack to another without apparently losing speed. Some knockabouts are provided with a center-board instead of a fin, for use in shallow waters.
In Australia, a hand on a station who does a little of everything.
A performer in a knockabout playorsketch;the sketch itself.
A traveler; one who has knocked about.
People living in rough, violent conditions.

Appropriate for rough wear or use.
Boisterous; rowdy.
Full of rough and exuberant animal spirits
Suitable for rough use
Boisterous
That does odd jobs; -- said of a class of hands or laborers on a sheep station.
Characterized by, or suitable for, knocking about, or traveling or wandering hither and thither; suitable for use in rough activity; suited for everyday use; -- used especially of clothing.
Marked by knocking about or roughness.
Of noisy and violent character; marked by farce, pratfalls, and horseplay.

Animated; full of life; lively; full of spirit or fire.
Having a spirit of a certain character: used in composition, as in high-spirited, low-spirited, mean-spirited.
Possessed by a spirit.
Synonyms Spiritual, etc. (see spirituous); ardent, high-mettled, high-spirited. See also animation.

Noisy; full of horse-play: as, a knockabout entertainment; knockabout business.
Accustomed to knock about or to be knocked about: as, a knockabout globe-trotter; suitable to be knocked about in: as, a knockabout coat.
Noting something which knocks (other things) about; rough; buffeting; boisterous: as, a knockabout game of foot-ball.
In Australia, applied to a jack of all trades on a station.

Ebullient, Brave, Courageous, Vivacious, Gritty, Zestful, Sprightly, Fearless, Spunky, Plucky, Gallant, Exuberant, Boisterous, Feisty, Lively

Tomfoolery, Ribald, Madcap, High jinks, Larrikin, Farce, Farcical, Banter, Badinage, Rumbustious, Slapstick, Sloop, Rugged, Spirited, Boisterous

Ebullient, Brave, Courageous, Vivacious, Gritty, Zestful, Sprightly, Fearless, Spunky, Plucky, Gallant, Exuberant, Boisterous, Feisty, Lively

Zany, Tomfoolery, Ribald, Madcap, High jinks, Farce, Farcical, Banter, Badinage, Rumbustious, Slapstick, Sloop, Rugged, Spirited, Boisterous

The Suit will be excellent for everyday wear, or for travelling ( or knockabout wear.
The director of the knockabout comedy grossly neglected in the parcelling out of praise.
Presented in an economical style, the slapstick grows logically out of the situations, and the acting is relatively subdued for a knockabout comedy.
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So the paternal and brotherly love meant to suffuse this knockabout tale with warmth feels phony even by stock buddy-comedy standards.
He took comedy so seriously, but he was not just a knockabout comic actor.
R. OBER, Frederick Albion - The Knockabout Club in the Antilles and Thereabouts.
Later that year he knocked the bottom out of a knockabout.