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gambols

gambols is the plural of gambol.

gambols is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gambol.

Meaning of gambol

Noun

gambol (plural gambols)

  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?c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
  2. 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.1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Voyage”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 14

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Questions about gambols

What is gambols the plural of?
Gambols is the plural of gambol.

Words near gambols in the dictionary

  1. gambolled
  2. gamboller
  3. gambollers
  4. gambolling
  5. gambollings
  6. gambols
  7. Gambon
  8. Gambone
  9. Gambones
  10. gambooge
  11. gambos

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