Gaysome

Her buds of gaysome youth

The very emperor his throne did grace to-day, Why, never was a crowd in such a gaysome mood.

Minerva suspected he'd been flirting with her on the trip through the Falls, suspected she'd been flirting back a bit — but only the way she did when there was a barn-raising or a baptism, and everyone was feeling gaysome.

“I never cared about the Union. Nor the South, neither, if you want to know the truth of it. I just wanted to get off the farm, and I had me a gaysome time of it. [...]”