sparkful
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sparkful (comparative more sparkful, superlative most sparkful)
- (uncommon) Lively, vivacious; smart.
- 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC, page 18:
- 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.
- 1827 February 5, Walter Augustus Shirley, “[Letter to his parents]”, in Thomas Hill, editor, Letters and Memoir of the Late Walter Augustus Shirley […], published 1849, page 95:
- It described the first ceiling I mentioned as “Apollo drawn by four sparkful steeds in a shining cart, the egregious Domenichino’s work.”
- 1929, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “Introduction”, in William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, page xxvii:
- […] 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.
- 1998, The American Enterprise[1], volume 9, page 78:
- Rachel was vivacious and sparkful. As her type is wont to do, she married a painfully jealous man, one Lewis Robards.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sparkful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.