songsome

songsome

English

Etymology

From song +‎ -some.

Adjective

songsome (comparative more songsome, superlative most songsome)

1. Characterised or marked by song(s) or singing
   • 1889, Travelers' Record - Volumes 25-26:

     Ah I my heart, / Lift up your voice; take songsome part, / And swell the chorus grand.

   • 1907, Puck - Volume 62:

     And when you've got this silver piece, Just order up a stein— Got to with songsome black-bird pies— The frosty stein for mine!

   • 1952, Lorna Doone Beers, The Book of Hugh Flower:

     "Aye," said John Hampden quickly, "but he is secret and apart. Does not Robert Hedge cut as fair a stone? Is he not friendly to all? Does he not play the tambor and sing as gay and songsome as a lark?"