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sparkful

adj

Etymology

From spark + -ful.

  1. derived from *sperg-✻
  2. derived from *sparkaz✻ — “lively, energetic”
  3. inherited from *sparkō✻
  4. inherited from spearca
  5. inherited from sparke
  6. suffixed as sparkful — “spark + ful”

Definitions

  1. Lively, vivacious

    Lively, vivacious; smart.

    • Hitherto will our sparkefull Youth laugh at their great grandfathers English, who had more care to do well, than to speake minion-like, and left more glory to vs by their exploiting of great actes, than we shall do by our sonnetting.
    • It described the first ceiling I mentioned as “Apollo drawn by four sparkful steeds in a shining cart, the egregious Domenichino’s work.”
    • […] he is quite well drawn, and of a piece with more than one sparkful young ‘hero’ of Shakespeare’s invention—with Bassanio, for instance, or the earlier Romeo.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA