Word to the Wise: Winsome

"Winsome" (WIN-sum) - from the Old English for "joy" - means cheerful or light-hearted.

Example (as used in The New York Times): "Willard R. Espy… had such a winsome way with words, such an elegant ear for rhyme, and such a sure sense of the absurd that he once began a poem with the words ‘I do not roister with an oyster.’"

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