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  1. sportfuladjective

    playful, related to sport

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sportfuladjective

    Merry; frolick; wanton; ludicrous; done in jest.

    Etymology: sport and full.

    How with a sportful malice it was follow’d,
    May rather pluck on laughter than revenge. William Shakespeare.

    His highness, even in such a slight and sportful damage, had a noble sense of just dealing. Henry Wotton.

    Down he alights among the sportful herd
    Of those four-footed kinds. John Milton.

    Behold your own Ascanius, while he said,
    He drew his glitt’ring helmet from his head,
    In which the youth to sportful arms he led. Dryden.

    They are no sportful productions of the soil, but did once belong to real and living fishes; seeing each of them doth exactly resemble some other shell on the sea-shore. Richard Bentley.

    A catalogue of this may be had in Albericus Gentilis; which, because it is too sportful, I forbear to mention. Thomas Baker.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sportfuladjective

    full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion

  2. Sportfuladjective

    done in jest, or for mere play; sportive

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Sportful in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Sportful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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