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playsome en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • plā'səm
  • /ˈpleɪsəm/

Etymology

From play + -some.

Meanings

  1. (dated, literary) Playful; frolicsome.
    • Sweet Frankie lives in Elfindale; Where all the flowers are fair, and frail (Like her fair self,) a slender fairy, And like a zephyr, playsome, airy, But lovelier far, than buxom Mary. 1855, James Avis Bartley, “Elfindale”, in Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems:
    • I have heard his brother Edm and M'r Wayte his schoole fellow &c, say that when he was a Boy he was playsome enough: but withall he had even then a contemplative Melancholinesse. c. 1690, John Aubrey, "On Thomas Hobbes" in Characters from the Histories & Memoirs of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 1918)http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13751/13751-8.txt
    • An' down below's the cloty brook Where I did vish with line an' hook, An' beat, in playsome dips and zwims, The foamy stream, wi' white-skinned lim's. c. 1880, William Barnes, The girt woak tree that's in the dell:

Forms

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most playsome Degree=Sup lexicographic
more playsome Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

playsomeness · playsomely

Synonyms

carefree · sportive · wanton · merry