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Grammar : Adj

Spell : geym-suh m

Phonetic Transcription : ˈgeɪm səm

Definition of gamesome

As in jaunty : adj lively
As in playful : adj funny, fun-loving
As in sporting/sportive : adj playful and fair
As in waggish : adj playful
As in sporting : adj playful
As in sportive : adj lively
As in frisky : adj full of spirit
As in frolicsome : adj playful
As in gay : adj happy

Example sentences :

Your lordship, with your flock of geese about you, would probably be frolic and gamesome.
Extract from : « Four Early Pamphlets » by William Godwin

The boarding-houses were corralling the easy dollars of the gamesome lawmakers.
Extract from : « Roads of Destiny » by O. Henry

But that active and gamesome maid was most entirely on the alert.
Extract from : « The Black Douglas » by S. R. Crockett

The fish are here, as lively and gamesome as brook trout, plump, golden-sided fellows ten or twelve inches long.
Extract from : « Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land » by Henry Van Dyke

She is gamesome and good, But of mutable mood,— No dreary repeater now and again, She will be all things to all men.
Extract from : « May-Day » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Four were handsome skittish lasses, gamesome like children, and like children liable to fits of pouting.
Extract from : « In the South Seas » by Robert Louis Stevenson

And all this was owing to the chimney, which my gamesome spouse seemed despitefully to regard as the bully of the house.
Extract from : « I and My Chimney » by Herman Melville

At best, these were doubtful levities, rather too thievish for a schoolboy, rather too gamesome for a thief.
Extract from : « Familiar Studies of Men and Books » by Robert Louis Stevenson

Come, thou lookest a gamesome fellow--cross he goes, pile he stays; best two in three flips--what sayst?
Extract from : « Master Skylark » by John Bennett

Pinkethman's inclination for "gamesome liberties" and "uncommon pleasantries" was of a most extravagant kind.
Extract from : « A Book of the Play » by Dutton Cook

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