gamblesome

English edit

From gamble +‎ -some.

gamblesome (comparative more gamblesome, superlative most gamblesome)

Characterised or marked by gambling
- 2004, Lori Clinch, Are We There Yet?:
  "That's very gamblesome." / (!) / I'm speechless. (But, fortunately, not wordless.) / If you're not nonplused by "gamblesome," or at least vastly taken aback, there's probably no hope for the language.
- 2013, John W. Mahon, Ellen Macleod Mahon, The Merchant of Venice: Critical Essays:
  In an article in English on “The Adventurers” in the play, we learn that “nearly every character turns out to be an adventurer, with a particular gamblesome [sic] tendency of his own” (30).