† popjoyv.
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. Perhaps: to amuse oneself in a casual fashion.In quots. in the context of fishing.
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society > leisure > entertainment > [verb (intransitive)]
playeOE
glewc900
gameOE
lakec1300
solace1340
bourdc1440
dallyc1440
sporta1450
to make sportc1475
disport1480
to have a good (bad, etc.) time (of it, formerly on it)1509
toy?1521
pastime1523
recreate1589
jest1597
feast1609
deliciate1633
divert1670
carpe diem1817
hobby-horse1819
popjoy1853
that'll be the day1916
to play around1929
loon1969
1853 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 472 So delighted was he with the bright silver ‘gulden’ I managed to extract from his stream—in which he himself was wont to popjoy in a very aboriginal manner—that [etc.].
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. ii. 28 After a whole afternoon's popjoying, they had caught three or four small coarse fish.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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