Citations:gimble

English citations of gimble

mentiony

• 1897, William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart (eds.), The Quarterly Review, volume 185, page 147

  […] sometimes they 'giffle' (fidget) or 'gimble' (grin), or else they are 'pheesy' (fretful), in which case they will probably [...] get a 'clip,' or a 'sowse,' or a 'siserara'—a blow or slap for which there are some thirty synonyms in the East Anglian vocabulary.