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Gleesome

//ˈɡliːsəm// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Characterised or marked by glee; gleeful; joyous.

    "So long as the men kept sober, Jervis rather liked this, and was never better pleased than when, on the last evening of the week, he heard the voices of the men raised in song, or the squeaking of the merry fiddle and gleesome flute."

Etymology

From glee + -some. Compare Yola gleezom (“joy”).

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