playsome

Adjective

playsome (comparative more playsome, superlative most playsome)

1. (dated, literary) Playful; frolicsome.
   • I have heard his brother Edm and M'r Wayte his schoole fellow &c, say that when he was a Boy he was playsome enough: but withall he had even then a contemplative Melancholinesse.c. 1690, John Aubrey, "On Thomas Hobbes" in Characters from the Histories & Memoirs of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 1918)http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13751/13751-8.txt
   • Sweet Frankie lives in Elfindale;
     Where all the flowers are fair, and frail
     (Like her fair self,) a slender fairy,
     And like a zephyr, playsome, airy,
     But lovelier far, than buxom Mary.1855, James Avis Bartley, “Elfindale”, in Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems

   Synonyms:

   carefree, merry, sportive, wanton