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toyful

toyful adjective: full of trifling play.

Adjective

toyful (comparative more toyful, superlative most toyful)

  1. (obsolete) Full of trifling play.
    • It quickened next a toyful ape, and so Gamesome it was, that it might freely go
      From tent to tent, and with the children playa. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “The Progresse of the Soule. The First Song.”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published...

Forms of toyful

comparativemore toyful
superlativemost toyful

Origin of toyful

From toy + -ful.

Questions about toyful

What does toyful mean?
Toyful means full of trifling play.
What part of speech is toyful?
Toyful is an adjective.

Words near toyful in the dictionary

  1. Toyes
  2. toyesis
  3. toyest
  4. toyeth
  5. toyetic
  6. toyful
  7. Toyger
  8. Toygers
  9. toyhouse
  10. toyhouses
  11. toyi-toyi

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