a. Now rare or Obs. [f. TOY sb. + -FUL.] Full of sport or fun; sportive, playful; funny, amusing.
1580. Sidney, Lett. to Robert S., 18 Oct. My toyfull Books I will send … by February.
a. 1631. Donne, Progr. Soul, xlvi. It quickned next a toyfull Ape.
1744. Armstrong, Preserv. Health, II. 290. When Favonius, flush’d with love Toyful and young, in ev’ry breeze descends.
Hence Toyfulness.
a. 1859. De Quincey, Posth. Wks. (1893), II. 24. The playfulness and … the toyfulness (if we may invent that word) of childhood.
