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English
Etymology
From play + -some.
Adjective
playsome (comparative more playsome, superlative most playsome)
- (dated, chiefly literary) Playful; frolicsome.[1]
- c. 1690, John Aubrey, "On Thomas Hobbes" in Characters from the Histories & Memoirs of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 1918):
- 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.
1855, James Avis Bartley, “Elfindale”, in Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems: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.
c. 1880, William Barnes, The girt woak tree that's in the dell: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.
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References
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1989)
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