gamesome
adjective
playful; frolicsome.
gamesomeness
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a word derived from
gamesome.
Example Sentences
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What he had done up to this hour had been done in the roystering, inconsiderate gamesomeness of boyhood.
From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe
They must leap and skip and overflow with gamesomeness and sheer joy, and they must utter all sorts of cries.
From Ancient Art and Ritual by Jane Ellen Harrison
And she, seeing him so roguish, and knowing it all for the gamesomeness of youth, forgave him willingly.
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Charles de Coster
In the midst of all that glee and gamesomeness it was strange to see one standing joyless.
From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Willy Pogany
If you yourself can withstand three cheers at beholding these vivacious fish, then heaven help ye; the spirit of godly gamesomeness is not in ye.
From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville
