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单词 gleeful
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gleefuladj.

/ˈɡliːfʊl/
Etymology: < glee n. + -ful suffix.
Full of glee; possessed by or manifesting a feeling of glee.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [adjective]
blitheOE
merryOE
golikc1175
lustya1225
playfulc1225
jollyc1305
merrya1350
jocund?c1380
galliardc1386
in (also on) a (merry, etc.) pinc1395
mirthfula1400
baudec1400
gayc1400
jovy1426
jocantc1440
crank1499
envoisiesa1500
as merry as a cricket1509
pleasant1530
frolic?1548
jolious1575
gleeful1586
buxom1590
gleesome1590
festival1592
laughter-loving1592
disposed1593
jucund1596
heartsomec1600
jovial1607
jovialist1610
laughsome1612
jocundary1618
gaysome1633
chirpinga1637
jovialissime1652
airy1654
festivous1654
hilarous1659
spleneticala1661
cocket1671
cranny1673
high1695
vogie1715
raffing?1719
festal1724
as merry (or lively) as a grig1728
hearty1755
tittuping1772
festive1774
fun-loving1776
mirthsome1787
Falstaffian1809
cranky1811
laughful1825
as lively as a cricket1832
hurrah1835
hilarious1838
Bacchic1865
laughterful1874
griggish1879
banzai1929
slap-you-on-the-back1932
1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iv. xx. 85 Nor lackes he gleefull tailes to tell, whil'st that the Bole doth trot.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 11 Wherefore lookst thou sad, When euerie thing dorh make a gleefull bost?
1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iv. 185 The wylie wench them makes her gleefull game.
1736 W. Thompson Epithalamium viii Deign to receive the Nation's publick Voice..who gleeful stand..and thus express their Joys: In Peals of loud Acclaim, and Mirth's confused Noise.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola III. ix. 84 [Her] ardour..was doubly strengthened by the gleeful triumph she saw in hard and coarse faces.
1886 J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts 25 The Chinee, gleeful at the length of his pigtail.

Derivatives

ˈgleefully adv. in a gleeful manner; with glee.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [adverb]
merryOE
feastlya1325
gailya1375
gay?a1400
festivally?c1400
merrilyc1400
jocundly1471
mirthfully1508
jolly1615
chirpingly1650
jollily1670
jovially1704
festively1793
gleeishly1828
gleesomely1850
gleefully1862
hilariously1863
1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. i. 8 He would be led on to boast gleefully of thoughts which the most cynical of criminals..would shrink from owning.
1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl I. 9 They wore it..grinning gleefully from ear to ear.
1890 ‘L. Falconer’ Mademoiselle Ixe (1891) 130 The children plunged gleefully into the copse.

Draft additions 1993

ˈgleefulness n. the quality or state of being gleeful.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [noun] > quality or condition of being merry
merrinesseOE
jollitya1350
jollinessc1386
jocundityc1420
festivity1583
buxomness1598
joviality1626
mirthsomenessa1645
jocosity1646
allegresse1652
jovialness1658
mirthfulness1749
festiveness1777
zizz1920
gleefulness1934
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Gleefulness.
1981 N.Y. Times 25 Jan. vi. 29/2 The man who is bringing us this bad news is also giving the lie to it with a vigor, a quiet gleefulness and a mastery of his craft.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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adj.1586
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