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Gambol

//ˈɡæm.bəl// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An instance of running or skipping about playfully.

    "Heere hung those lipps, that I haue kist I know not how oft. VVhere be your Iibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flashes of Merriment that were wont to set the Table on a Rore?"

  2. 2
    gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement wordnet
  3. 3
    An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    To move about playfully; to frolic. intransitive

    "The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled."

  2. 2
    play boisterously wordnet
  3. 3
    To do a forward roll. British, West-Midlands

Etymology

Etymology 1

From earlier gambolde, from Middle French gambade (modern gambade).

Etymology 2

From earlier gambolde, from Middle French gambade (modern gambade).

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