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gamesome, a.|ˈgeɪmsəm|
Also 4 gamsum, 5–6 gamsome.
[f. game n. + -some.]
Full of game or play; frolicsome, merry, playful, sportive.
c1350Will. Palerne 4193 Sche gamsum & glad goþ hem a-ȝens. 1483Cath. Angl. 149/1 Gameson (A. Gamsome), ludibundus. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 274, I now taking heart at grasse, to see hir so gamesome. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 363 Whether they have beene..living creatures, or the gamesome Sports of Nature. a1659Cleveland Wks. (1687) 261 The looser pastime of her gamesome Hair. 1735Thomson Liberty iii. 321 The Shepherd..Sits piping to his Flocks and gamesome Kids. 1794Coleridge To a young Ass, How thou wouldst toss thy heels in gamesome play! 1841Browning Pippa Passes Introd. 24 As if earth turned from work in gamesome mood. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home, Near Oxford (1879) 189 The stags..bounded away, not affrighted, but only shy and gamesome.
Hence ˈgamesomely adv., in a gamesome manner; playfully, sportively; ˈgamesomeness, the quality of being gamesome.
1601Weever Mirr. Mart. B ij b, To catch the baulme⁓sweete breathing of the aire, Which gamesomlie into their bosomes got. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 45 The fatter the Ox is, the more gamesomly he goes to the Slaughter. 1727Bailey vol. II, Gamesomeness. 1813Moore Post-bag i. 52 A pretty contrivance..Which, however high-mettled, their gamesomeness checks. 1847Helps Friends in C. (1861) I. ii. 23 The monkey imitates from imitative skill and gamesomeness. 1884Graphic 29 Nov. 566/3 In strength a man, in gamesomeness a child. 1890Blackw. Mag. CXLVIII. 58/2 The smoke puffs gamesomely down the chimney. |