toyful

English

Etymology

From toy +‎ -ful.

Adjective

toyful (comparative more toyful, superlative most toyful)

1. (obsolete) Full of trifling play.
   • a. 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 1633, →OCLC:

     It quickened next a toyful ape, and so Gamesome it was, that it might freely go
     From tent to tent, and with the children play

References

“toyful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• fly out, flyout, outfly