gamesomeness
English
Etymology
gamesome + -ness
Noun
gamesomeness (uncountable)
- The quality of being gamesome.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- So when they were working that evening at the pumps, there was on this head no small gamesomeness slily going on among them, as they stood with their feet continually overflowed by the rippling clear water […]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick