the worthless word for the day is: galliardise
[fr. F. galliard] (or galliardize) /GAL yeh(r) dize/
archaic exuberant merriment, (extreme) gaiety
"I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth
and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can
compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend
the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits
thereof." - Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1643)
"Your life is one long gaillardise."
- Harper's Magazine, Feb. 1893
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