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gamboled - 2 dictionary results

gam⋅bol

[gam-buhl] verb, -boled, -bol⋅ing or (especially British) -bolled, -bol⋅ling, noun
–verb (used without object)
1. to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
–noun
2. a skipping or frisking about; frolic.

Origin:
1495–1505; earlier gambold, gambald, gamba(u)de < MF gambade; see gambade


1. spring, caper, frisk, romp.
gam·bol   (gām'bəl)   
intr.v.   gam·boled or gam·bolled, gam·bol·ing or gam·bol·ling, gam·bols
To leap about playfully; frolic.
n.  A playful skipping or frolicking about.

[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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