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单词 playsome
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playsomeadj.

Brit. /ˈpleɪs(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈpleɪsəm/
Forms: see play n. and -some suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: play n., -some suffix1.
Etymology: < play n. + -some suffix1. Compare earlier playful adj.
Now chiefly regional.
= playful adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > playfulness > [adjective]
gamingOE
playfulc1225
gamefulc1275
gamelya1350
gamesomea1375
playable?c1475
frisky?a1500
sporting1549
sportful1577
toyish1577
toyful1580
sportive1593
gambol1600
sportly1600
sporting1607
playsome1612
jiggish1635
toysome1638
ludible1656
ludibund1668
good-humoured1682
flippant1711
lusory1711
gamp1737
kittenish1753
sportable1767
disportive1773
whisky1782
playward1878
1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 i. iii. iii. 137 All pleasant folke, wellminded, malicious, and playsome [Sp. juguetona].
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. ii. iii. 117 Not asham'd of expressing any Extasy of Joy or playsom Humour.
1755 D. Hume Nat. Hist. Relig. in Ess. (1817) II. 451 The playsome whimsies of monkeys.
1801 J. Minshull Rural Felicity ii. 43 On Jersey shore, at Hobuck Point, Tall Poplars spread, and shade the green, When cheer'd by air, their nervous joint, In manly youth are playsome seen.
1870 F. P. Verney Lettice Lisle xxviii. 305 He always said he [sc. the horse] were only playsome, and that 'tweren't vice.
1896 J. Lumsden Battle of Dunbar & Prestonpans 23 Twa playsome foalies wi' our mithers.
a1978 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Compl. Poems (1993) I. 338 Corky-heidit as if in a playsome way.

Derivatives

playsomely adv. Obsolete rare
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > playfulness > [adverb]
gamelya1375
gamefullyc1410
gamesomelya1425
wantonlya1475
sportfullya1586
sportively1597
lasciviously1607
puppy-like1617
sportinglya1639
playsomely1646
playfully1736
disportively1810
kittenishly1896
1646 H. Hammond View Exceptions to Visct. Falkland's Disc. Infallibilitie 56 He that were playsomely disposed.
ˈplaysomeness n. rare
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > playfulness > [noun]
sportfulnessa1586
sportiveness1601
frolicknessa1617
gamesomeness1631
ludibundness1664
playfulness1673
playsomeness1676
friskiness1727
sportability1768
coquetry1794
toyfulness1838
larkiness1896
kittenishness1905
1676 J. Glanvill Seasonable Refl. 108 How much slightness and playsomeness in speaking of serving God.
1884 R. Browning Camel-driver in Ferishtah's Fancies 60 My playsomeness had pleased thee.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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