Sport"ful (?), a.

1.

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

Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton.

2.

Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive.

They are no sportful productions of the soil. Bentley.

-- Sport"ful*ly, adv. -- Sport"ful*ness, n.

 

© Webster 1913.