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  • 71gay — [adj1] happy alert, animate, animated, blithe, blithesome, bouncy, brash, carefree, cheerful, cheery, chipper*, chirpy, confident, convivial, devil may care*, festive, forward, frivolous, frolicsome, fun loving, gamesome, glad, gleeful, hilarious …

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  • 72jaunty — [adj] lively airy, animated, bold, brash, breezy, buoyant, carefree, careless, cocky, dapper, dashing, debonair, devilish, devil maycare*, easy, exhilarated, flip*, flippant, forward, free, fresh, frisky, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, high spirited …

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  • 73playful — [adj] funny, fun loving antic, blithe, cheerful, coltish*, comical, elvish*, feeling one’s oats*, flirtatious, frisky, frolicsome, full of pep*, gamesome, gay, good natured, impish, jaunty, jesting, jocund, joking, joyous, lighthearted, lively,… …

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  • 74sporting — / sportive [adj] playful and fair antic, coltish, considerate, devil may care*, frisky, frolicsome, full of fun*, game, gamesome, gay, generous, impish, jaunty, joyous, larkish, lively, merry, mischievous, reasonable, roguish, rollicking,… …

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  • 75sportive — sporting / sportive [adj] playful and fair antic, coltish, considerate, devil may care*, frisky, frolicsome, full of fun*, game, gamesome, gay, generous, impish, jaunty, joyous, larkish, lively, merry, mischievous, reasonable, roguish, rollicking …

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  • 76waggish — [adj] playful amusing, blithe, bubbly, cheerful, clowning, comical, frolicsome, funny, gamesome, gay, humorous, jaunty, jesting, jocular, jocund, joking, jolly, joyous, kittenish, lighthearted, lively, merry, mirthful, snappy, spirited, teasing,… …

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  • 77agog — [15] Agog probably comes from Old French gogue ‘merriment’. It was used in the phrase en gogue, meaning ‘enjoying oneself’ (Randle Cotgrave, in his Dictionarie of the French and English tongues 1611, defines estre en ses gogues …

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  • 78gamesomely — adverb see gamesome …

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  • 79gamesomeness — noun see gamesome * * * gameˈsomeness noun • • • Main Entry: ↑game …

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  • 80game´some|ness — game|some «GAYM suhm», adjective. full of play; ready to play; sportive; playful: »a hearty, jocund, rubicund, gamesome wag (Washington Irving). SYNONYM(S): frolicsome. –game´some|ly, adverb. –game´some|ness, noun …

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