gleesome
Americanadjective
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Their parents at first, however, only laughed at what161 they considered the gleesome antics of these embryo personators in opera.
From Music and Some Highly Musical People by James M. Trotter
My worthy friend, ne’er grudge an’ carp, Tho’ fortune use you hard an’ sharp; Come, kittle up your moorland-harp Wi’ gleesome touch!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
Gentle Bandar, an inscrutable Decree Makes thee a gleesome, fleasome Thou, and me a wretched Me.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
He exhorted all the guests to be in honour, gleesome, and merry, and requested leave to join the dancers, which was not refused him.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various
When winter winds blaw sharp and shrill O'er icy burn and sheeted hill, The ingle neuk is gleesome still At the foot o' Bennachie.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
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