songsome

comparative more songsome · superlative most songsome

1. Characterised or marked by song(s) or singing

   Ah I my heart, / Lift up your voice; take songsome part, / And swell the chorus grand.

   1889, Travelers' Record - Volumes 25-26

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   And when you've got this silver piece, Just order up a stein— Got to with songsome black-bird pies— The frosty stein for mine!

   1907, Puck, volume 62

   "Aye," said John Hampden quickly, "but he is secret and apart. Does not Robert Hedge cut as fair a stone? Is he not friendly to all? Does he not play the tambor and sing as gay and songsome as a lark?"

   1952, Lorna Doone Beers, The Book of Hugh Flower