| 释义 |
playsome, a. Now chiefly dial.|ˈpleɪsəm|
[f. play n. + -some.]
Inclined to play; playful.
1612Shelton Quix. i. iii. iii. 137 All pleasant folke, wellminded, malicious, and playsome. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. Misc. ii. iii. 117 Not asham'd of expressing any Extasy of Joy or playsom Humour. 1755Hume Nat. Hist. Relig. Ess. 1817 II. 451 The playsome whimsies of monkeys. 1870Verney Lettice Lisle 305 He always said he [the horse] were only playsome and that 'tweren't vice.
Hence ˈplaysomely adv., ˈplaysomeness.
a1643Ld. Falkland, etc. Infallibility (1646) 56 He that were playsomely disposed. 1676Glanvill Seasonable Reflect. 108 How much slightness and playsomeness in speaking of serving God. 1884Browning Ferishtah, Camel-driver 60 My playsomeness had pleased thee. |