joyhood

English

Etymology

From joy +‎ -hood.

Noun

joyhood (uncountable)

  1. (rare, nonstandard) The quality, condition, or state of joy.
    • 1853, Edward HIND, Spencer Timothy Hall, Poems:
      Green grove of Clifton! though vanished our boyhood, We'll visit your glade in some fair eve of June; Yet lingers the spirit which brightened life's joyhood, […]
    • 1898, John Worth Edmonds, George T. Dexter, Spiritualism:
      Previous to his beginning to speak, the whole of that great crowd of spirits was moving about, talking, laughing, etc., but while he spoke there was a holy calm, a perfect silence resting on the scene. Joyhood ceased its laugh, the brook staid its murmur, […]
    • 1911, Folger McKinsey, Songs of the Daily Life:
      Symptom five — just like the others: Oh, it's fishing time, my brothers, When the fever, all a-sudden, Makes us think of lilacs buddin', And the heart turns back to boyhood With its honeyed days of joyhood!
    • 1919, Locomotive Engineers Journal:
      Fret not, old pal, when you are sore
      At things which rob you of your joyhood.
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