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gimbles

gimbles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gimble.

gimbles is the plural 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 gimbles

What is gimbles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Gimbles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gimble.

Words near gimbles in the dictionary

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

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