gaysome

comparative more gaysome · superlative most gaysome

1. Characterised or marked by gaiety; cheerful; gladsome.

   Her buds of gaysome youth

   1610, “The Life and Death of King Edmund, surnamed Ironside”, in Richard Niccols, editor, The Mirror for Magistrates

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   The very emperor his throne did grace to-day, Why, never was a crowd in such a gaysome mood.

   1900, Rixford Joseph Lincoln, Poems and Short Stories

   Minerva suspected he'd been flirting with her on the trip through the Falls, suspected she'd been flirting back a bit — but only the way she did when there was a barn-raising or a baptism, and everyone was feeling gaysome.

   2003, Evan Hunter, The Chisholms, page 60

   “I never cared about the Union. Nor the South, neither, if you want to know the truth of it. I just wanted to get off the farm, and I had me a gaysome time of it. [...]”

   2015, Sandra Dallas, A Quilt for Christmas