gamefuladj.

c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 24 (MED) Ich am gomeful & glead, lauerd, for þi godlec.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. lxxix. 1231 Wyse and witty kynde makeþ to vs gameful þynges and wonderful to schewe his might.

a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) iii. 39 Which will make tedious yeeres seeme gamefull To me.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10693 Þa loh Arður..and þus ȝeddien agon mid gomenfulle worden.

a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 38^v Ludibundus, gamful.

a1475 Revelations St. Birgitta (Garrett) (1929) 111 My lippes..werne redy to wordes of pride, vayne, gameful, and vnhonest.

1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 667 But my remnant life Heav'n shall determine in a gameful strife.

1759 E. Stephens Poems 10 Her fan..Falls from the fair-one's lilly hand unfurl'd: By nice design or gameful Fortune hurl'd.

1824 ‘P. Oakley’ Aureus xxii. 218 The boy thought himself equally entitled to some gameful relaxation, and required little invitation to..join in the hazardous amusements around him.

1880 Arthur's Home Mag. 48 188/2 The style [of bonnet] was that queer fashion of a few years ago, that editors in gameful way called ‘cabbage-leaf’.

1972 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 27 Nov. 6/1 The unsuspecting inventor was nonchalantly fiddling with a paper cigar band... His son, a 4-year-old in a gameful mood, slipped it on his finger.

2001 A. Lavender Hamlet in Pieces ii. 84 By way of some would-be straight-talking about the metaphysical, rather than the gameful scoffing at language-(mis)use which occurs earlier in the show.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 290 Of gamefull parks, of meadowes fresh.

1656 A. Cowley Davideis iv. 124 in Poems To gameful Nebo still three leagues there be.

1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur iv. 110 For warlike Toil he leaves the gameful Wood.

1751 A. Pope Windsor-Forest in Wks. I. 95 Now range the hills, the gameful woods beset.

1871 Young Israel Sept. 412 In England, the rich forests and gameful parks of hares, rabbits, pheasants, and partridges have only been kept up by the almost total extirpation of the fox.

1894 A. L. Perry Origins Williamstown ii. 156 Annually passed up from southern Berkshire these hunting parties of the Indians through Williamstown into these gameful forests at the north.

1910 K. B. Bingham & V. D. Boyles Spirit Trail xii. 196 That mighty Alliance..who had gradually, band by band, followed the daring lead of the Tetons and migrated to the gameful prairies.

1966 Sunday Light (San Antonio, Texas) 30 Oct. (Newcomer section) 75/1 You may have to scrounge around a bit to find room [to hunt] in those gameful spots.

1704 T. D'Urfey Broken Commands in Tales 272 The Gameful Prince, to Sports Inclin'd..,Did Hawking most prefer.

1853 L. Giddings Sketches Campaign Northern Mexico vi. 165 The fire was promptly returned by our gameful little mortar, which, if it damaged not the enemy, served at least to diversify the spectacle.

1935 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 13 Feb. 13/5 This orchestra has many followers and it is a great sight to see these gameful old timers out on the dance floor.

2009 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 17 Jan. 24 Tim Sanders added a third after the gameful visitors had pulled one back.

c1410 tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 111 A preost..seide in game, ‘Why chese ȝe nouȝt me myself?’ whos gaume oþere nouȝt takynge gamfully [etc.].

1707 Oration Sacred to Imperial Majesty Anne 78 We gamefully clap our Wings and Crow, when happily we can get up with them.

1895 Semi-weekly Cedar Falls (Iowa) Gaz. 26 Mar. The Gordon girl raised her shoulders above the water. Rover seized her and tugged gamefully.

1992 Investors Chron. 23 Oct. 16/2 According to its (few) supporters, RHM's management has struggled gamefully under difficult circumstances.