gambol
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- intransitive verb To leap about playfully; frolic.
- noun A playful skipping or frolicking about.
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- Coming where it does, the joke inserted about the Board of Agriculture is rather like the gambol of a rhinoceros trying to imitate the curvettings of a thoroughbred horse. — Sir Walter Scott
- The cocks crow vigorously, and strut and ogle; the kids gambol and leap on the backs of their dams quietly chewing the cud; other goats make believe fighting. — The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
- And there my lord and I used to gambol for an hour after our duties in court were over. — The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins
- "As to the part of the old woman that will unavoidably be lost due to the operation--he shrugged-"I've studied the matter in depth and see no way around it. — For Love of Mother-Not
- Pun on "gambol." — The Journal to Stella
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- Alteration of French gambade, horse's jump, from Old French, perhaps from Old Italian gambata, from gamba, leg, from Late Latin, hoof, perhaps from Greek kampē, bend.
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/ (gămˈbəl)/
ahd pronounces "gambol"
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