Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness
are my closest friends.
are my closest friends.
--Philip Roth
DEFINITION:
Adjective -
Sportive or playful
SYNONYMS:
Frolicsome
Recreational
ETYMOLOGY/ORIGIN:
Latin (ludibundus, "playful")
PRONUNCIATION:
[lū' di-bund]
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SCRABBLE SCORE:
12, but it is not considered an official Scrabble word
USAGE AND EXAMPLES
In the meantime, hold your peace, lest you commit yourself. Say nothing till you are asked. Most strange affair." Thus at once doomed to silence, George sat and listened to the mixed buzz of this misery become LUDIBUND. Nor was his unhappiness thus limited: a fearful conviction seized him, that long before he was hanged he would take on the likeness of the wretches he had passed through; - he would become sleazy; his eyes would be red, fiery, or bleared with tears, dried up in the heat of his fevered blood; his cheeks would be pale-yellow or blue, his voice husky, and his nose red; he would sing, swear, dance - ay, douce at one than sent hence thus deteriorated, - an unpleasant customer in the other world.
--Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland
Alexander Leighton, 1885
His trademarked LUDIBUND imagination frequently causes ruptures - if not ghastly frissons - between his playful compositional technique and the gravity of some of his stories.
--Ovidian Transformations: Essays on Ovid's Metamorphoses and Its Reception
by Philip R Hardie, Alessandro Barchiesi, and Stephen Hinds, 1999
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