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gimbled

gimbled is the simple past and past participle of gimble.

Meaning of gimble

Verb

gimble (third-person singular simple present gimbles, present participle gimbling, simple past and past participle gimbled)

  1. (East-Anglia) To grin or smile.
    • GIMBLE, v. to grin or smile. Though the g in this word is hard […] ][1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Angliahttps://archive.org/details/vocabularyeasta06forbgoog, vol. II, p. 131

Questions about gimbled

What is gimbled the simple past and past participle of?
Gimbled is the simple past and past participle of gimble.

Words near gimbled in the dictionary

  1. Gimbel
  2. Gimbels
  3. Gimbert
  4. Gimberts
  5. gimble
  6. gimbled
  7. gimbles
  8. gimblet
  9. gimbleted
  10. gimbleting
  11. gimblets

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