humorsome

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One of his contemporaries describes him as "so humorsome, proud, and capricious, that he was rather a ministry spoiler than a ministry maker."

From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by McCarthy, Justin

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

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

"You'll think me humorsome, boy, but I hev an odd fancy."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various

And so, with a careless and humorsome wave of his hand to one side, he went down the staircase, and so out into the quadrangle of the Palace.

From Red Axe by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)