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English
Etymology
From toy + -ful.
Adjective
toyful (comparative more toyful, superlative most toyful)
- (obsolete) Full of trifling play.
a. 1631 (date written), J Donne, “The Progresse of the Soule. The First Song.”, in Poems, with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: M F for Iohn Marriot, , published 1633, →OCLC: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
References
“toyful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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