playsome
adj/ˈpleɪsəm/
Etymology From play + -some.
- I have heard his brother Edm and M'r Wayte his schoole fellow &c, say that when he was a Boy he was playsome enough: but withall he had even then a contemplative Melancholinesse.c. 1690, John Aubrey, "On Thomas Hobbes" in Characters from the Histories & Memoirs of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 1918)http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13751/13751-8.txt
- Sweet Frankie lives in Elfindale; Where all the flowers are fair, and frail (Like her fair self,) a slender fairy, And like a zephyr, playsome, airy, But lovelier far, than buxom Mary.1855, James Avis Bartley, “Elfindale”, in Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems:
1 more example
- An' down below's the cloty brook Where I did vish with line an' hook, An' beat, in playsome dips and zwims, The foamy stream, wi' white-skinned lim's.c. 1880, William Barnes, The girt woak tree that's in the dell:
- Derived terms
- playsomely, playsomeness