What's the difference between frisky and gamesome?
Frisky
Definition:
(a.) Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fans get frisky with the green and yellow Caipirinha-flavoured World Cup condoms are flying off the shelves in Brazil as fans stretch their passion for the home team to new lengths.
(2) And look over there; surely it can’t be, but yes, my word: stern old Mr Sillars getting all frisky with Ms May, the boarding school matron, and her kitten heels.
(3) This audience included 1.1 million watching the BBC HD simulcast – a frisky figure for a channel that has otherwise struggled to establish itself, featuring as it does a mishmash of programming from all the corporation's TV channels other than BBC1 (which has its own dedicated HD channel).
(4) He confesses he does enjoy the thrill of his out-of-hours Frisky Gary persona.
(5) Both Rudulph and Porter suggest their lifestyle choices are in some way feminist: "Ever since Mary played the Immaculate card in Bethlehem, our culture has been struggling with a fundamental split: women are unconsciously perceived as either good girls or good-time girls, either naughty or nice … [But] suddenly we can be mothers AND be considered frisky in the bedroom," gushes Porter .
(6) And yet none of those messages break into the mainstream debate, in which we reach some rather jolly conclusions about the frisky over-70s, along with sober reflections on whether having a laptop in the bedroom depletes our sexual activity .
(7) Besides the presence of a frisky Gordon setter, the scene when I arrive for my appointment with Melinda Nettleton and John Friel exudes simplicity and order: a pristine meeting room at a London legal chambers, tea and biscuits served on spotless white china and conversation of lawyerly precision.
(8) Reed honed his comedic style at Cartoon Network's anarchic late-night offshoot Adult Swim, where he devised underwater adventure series Sealab 2021 and superhero parody Frisky Dingo.
(9) On The Frisky Amelia McDonnell-Parry wrote: "Whoopi Goldberg, who I never expected to be a rape apologist, coins a term I've never heard before – 'rape-rape' ."
(10) Three years after Thinner was turned into a poorly received film, Bryan Smith was driving along Maine's Route 5 while trying to control his frisky rottweiler, Bullet.
(11) Facing each other across a quayside street are the fun and frisky Dice Bar , where I’ve spent many a tipsy Friday night, and the agreeably diveish Frank Ryan’s .
Gamesome
Definition:
(a.) Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Murakami's winning gamesomeness is on show again in this story of a lonely boy whose four colour-coded childhood friends (their names in Japanese mean "red pine", "blue sea", "white root" and "black field") abruptly rejected him.