Playsomeness vs Playsome - What's the difference?
playsomeness | playsome | Derived terms |
(dated, chiefly, literary) Playful; frolicsome.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed. (1989)
* " in Characters from the Histories & Memoirs of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 1918)[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13751/13751-8.txt]:
* 1855 , James Avis Bartley, "Elfindale" in Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/7/3/16735/16735-8.txt]:
* , "The girt woak tree that's in the dell"[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2621/2621-h/2621-h.htm#2H_4_0138]:
Playsomeness is a derived term of playsome.
As a noun playsomeness
is (dated) the quality of being playsome.As an adjective playsome is
(dated|chiefly|literary) playful; frolicsomeoxford english dictionary , 2nd ed (1989).playsome
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- 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.
- 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.