toyful
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
toyful (comparative more toyful, superlative most toyful)
- (obsolete) Full of trifling play.
- 1612, J[ohn] Donne, “Of the Progresse of the Soule. Wherein, by Occasion of the Religious Death of Mistris Elizabeth Drury, the Incommodities of the Soule in this Life, and her Exaltation in the Next, are Contemplated. The Second Anniversary.”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC:
- It quickened next a toyful ape, and so Gamesome it was, that it might freely go
From tent to tent, and with the children play
References edit
“toyful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.