humorsome

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Borderers, buccaneers, robber, and humorsome people, like Dugald Dalgetty and Bailie Nicol Jarvie and Macwheeble, whom he said he preferred to any person in "Waverley," were the characters he delighted in.

From Waverley by Scott, Walter, Sir

It is a humorsome display of frolic; a whole cornucopia of the most vivacious jokes is emptied into it.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John

We grow so humorsome, so obstinate and capricious, and so prejudiced, that it requires a fund of good-nature like yours not to grow morose.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace

My gudesire's hair stood on end at this proposal, but he thought his companion might be some humorsome chield that was trying to frighten him, and might end with lending him the money.

From The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural by Rhys, Ernest

The Commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms: they aver them to be rebellions.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund