gleesome
Americanadjective
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Scores of baby ostriches, just released from their night shelter, were racing into the morning light, pirouetting round each other like crazy, gleesome sprites.
From Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley
His gleesome spirit had sustained him throughout the dread ordeal.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
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
Who would be pent up within four stone walls on such a day, when he could forth with the blue above and the green below, and a thousand gleesome things around?
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 by Various
Thou hast no sex; but, in an elfish way, Thou dost entwine in one, as in a troth, The gleesome thoughts of man and maiden both.
From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Eric Mackay
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