cheerish

comparative more cheerish · superlative most cheerish

1. rarecheerful

   Did you give a cheerful greeting to the boy who came along, / Or a cheerish sort of "howdy" and then vanish in the throng?

   1930, Journal of Education, volumes 111-112, page 425

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   The sunny South develops a different view of life, a different literature and a different art from the lightless North. Here a clear smiling sky and a joyful disposition in a cheerish mind, […]

   1902, Light, volume 2, page 93