gambol
English
Etymology
From earlier gambolde, from Middle French gambade (modern gambade).
Pronunciation
Verb
gambol (third-person singular simple present gambols, present participle (UK) gambolling or (US) gamboling, simple past and past participle (UK) gambolled or (US) gamboled)
- (intransitive) To move about playfully; to frolic.
- 1835: William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan: A Romance of the Revolution, chapter XI, page 134 (Harper)
- The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled.
- 1907, Paul Lafargue, The rights of the horse, page 160:
- […] she remains near him to suckle him and teach him to choose the delicious grasses of the meadow, in which he gambols until he is grown.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
- In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into great leaps of excitement.
- 1948, F. H. Lyon, chapter 5, in Kon-Tiki, translation of original by Thor Heyerdahl, →ISBN, page 143:
- [The whales] quite enjoyed themselves gamboling freely among the waves in the sunshine.
- 1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, →ISBN, page 286:
- Three girls moved across the billiard-table lawn of a great manor house, circling and swarming about a common center of gravity like gamboling sparrows.
- 1835: William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan: A Romance of the Revolution, chapter XI, page 134 (Harper)
- (British, West Midlands) To do a forward roll.
Translations
to move about playfully
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to do a forward roll
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Noun
gambol (plural gambols)
- An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
- 1843, Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold Bug, page 10:
- When his gambols were over, I looked at the paper, and, to speak the truth, found myself not a little puzzled at what my friend had depicted.
- An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.
- 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, The Voyage:
- There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols.
Translations
instance
Tagalog
Adjective
gamból
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