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- adjective Archaic form of
playful .
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Examples
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More than anything else it reminded me of Blondie my puppy when she is being very playfull.
Timing is Everything 2008
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There is a sense of joy, a celebration of a new language, a playfull exploration of the collective unconscious that permeates each story and poem.
Quick Review 04 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Eever wurd ya yooz, it meenz ‘keyoot lil funnee playfull burdee’!
I HAS SLAIN DA DRAGON - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Dis kitteh not thrown or abused to meh. dis hooman has mean spirit, I wundrz, did dis homman ebber haz young playfull kitteh b4. all us hoomanz wid kittehs noes dat kittehs not hab happy faces wen dey not happy. i be mad cuz i tink pixur be funneh, but someone tinks dat I be laffin bout a kitteh being hurt. i just want to tell dem dat
Cats: - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Ironic and self-ironic, sometimes even aggressive, his verse is imaginative deriving into science fiction, playfull and able to prove an outstanding lexical and shape dexterity, totally impregnated with cultural allusions, wittily inserted through meta textual and self referential strategies.
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I suppose some playfull people find a piece of flexible tubing, wonder if they can form a circle with it and next you know they are hooping
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"Because a very interesting thing is happening," said mother, trying to look playfull.
Bab: a Sub-Deb Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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"Because a very interesting thing is happening," said mother, trying to look playfull.
Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917
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He, poor boy, was a playfull child, about four years of age, when I was taken.
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Julia is as chearly and as playfull as ever, but will not sit or lye upon the settee.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 26 December 1794 1794
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