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mirthsome

adj

Etymology

From mirth + -some.

  1. inherited from *murgīþu✻ — “briefness, brevity”
  2. inherited from myrġþ — “mirth, joy”
  3. inherited from merth
  4. suffixed as mirthsome — “mirth + some”

Definitions

  1. Full of mirth.

    • The violets blow, and mirthsome birds / With wild song fill the air
    • The "Worship of Venus," in the bright and varied scale of its tones, and the brilliant play of its lights, is a conception of a gleeful and mirthsome stamp.

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