English

Adjective

gaysome ‎(comparative more gaysome, superlative most gaysome)

1. (archaic) Full of gaiety; cheerful; gladsome.
   • 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.

   • 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. [...]”

   (Can we find and add a quotation of The Mirror for Magistrates to this entry?)

Derived terms

• gaysomeness