gleesome

Etymology

From glee + -some.

adj

  1. Characterised or marked by glee; gleeful; joyous.
    So long as the men kept sober, Jervis rather liked this, and was never better pleased than when, on the last evening of the week, he heard the voices of the men raised in song, or the squeaking of the merry fiddle and gleesome flute. 1894, Gordon Stables, As We Sweep Through The Deep
    "And wasn't it just jolly!" gloated a juvenile gleesome voice in a loud whisper. 1907, Peter T. Harkness, Andy the Acrobat
    For the bird will sing gleesome dirges in your heart!" 1924, Various, O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919
    They were “gleesome as kittens, especially when off to a fight or a fire.” 2010, Josephine F. Pacheco, The Pearl
    So it was a right gleesome frolic he had that night? 2014, Julian Stockwin, Pasha

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