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Definition of Gamesome
1. a. Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry.
Definition of Gamesome
1. Adjective. Full of sport; playful ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gamesome
1. playful [adj] - See also: playful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gamesome
Literary usage of Gamesome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"Joyful ; gamesome. Shepheard why creepe we in this lowly vaine, As though our
muse no store at nil ..."
2. English Synonymes: Explained in Alphabetical Order, with Copious Illus. and by George Crabb (1897)
"gamesome and sportive are applied to persons of maturer years; the former in the
bad sense, ... A person may be said to be gamesome who gives into idle ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"Joyful ; gamesome. Shepheard why creepe we in this lowly vaine, As though our
muse no store at nil ..."
4. English Synonymes: Explained in Alphabetical Order, with Copious Illus. and by George Crabb (1897)
"gamesome and sportive are applied to persons of maturer years; the former in the
bad sense, ... A person may be said to be gamesome who gives into idle ..."
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