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形容詞

gaysome (comparative more gaysome, superlative most gaysome)

1. Characterised or marked by gaiety; cheerful; gladsome.
   • 1610, Richard Niccols (editor) "The Life and Death of King Edmund, surnamed Ironside", in The Mirror for Magistrates

     Her buds of gaysome youth

   • 1900, Rixford Joseph Lincoln, Poems and Short Stories:

     The very emperor his throne did grace to-day, Why, never was a crowd in such a gaysome mood.

   • 2003, Evan Hunter, The Chisholms, page 60:

     Minerva suspected he'd been flirting with her on the trip through the Falls, suspected she'd been flirting back a bit — but only the way she did when there was a barn-raising or a baptism, and everyone was feeling gaysome.

   • 2015, Sandra Dallas, A Quilt for Christmas:

     “I never cared about the Union. Nor the South, neither, if you want to know the truth of it. I just wanted to get off the farm, and I had me a gaysome time of it. [...]”