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toyful en · ADJ

Etymology

From toy + -ful.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Full of trifling play.
   • It quickened next a toyful ape, and so Gamesome it was, that it might freely go From tent to tent, and with the children play a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “The Progresse of the Soule. The First Song.”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC:

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