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toyful, a. Now rare or Obs.|ˈtɔɪfʊl|
[f. toy n. + -ful.]
Full of sport or fun; sportive, playful; funny, amusing.
1580Sidney Let. to Robert S. 18 Oct., My toyfull Books I will send..by February. a1631Donne Progr. Soul xlvi, It quickned next a toyfull Ape. 1744Armstrong Preserv. Health ii. 290 When Favonius, flush'd with love Toyful and young, in ev'ry breeze descends.
Hence ˈtoyfulness.
a1859De Quincey Posth. Wks. (1893) II. 24 The playfulness and..the toyfulness (if we may invent that word) of childhood. |