单词 | gamboller |
释义 | gambollergambolern. A person or animal that gambols. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > one who or that which leaperc1325 loper1483 vaulter1552 gamboller1587 springer1609 jumper1611 kangaroo1865 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxiii. 399 Some Dauncer or Gambolder had displeased them at the Gamings and Showes. 1824 European Mag. May 441/1 I really prefer these [sc. May Day celebrations]..to the gambollers and dream or omen diviners of Midsummer. 1906 T. R. Barnett Fairshiels ii. 23 You can see the fields dotted here and there with the most frolicsome gambolers on earth—the little lambs. 2003 F. Highland Ghost Eaters vi. 79 She had no compunction about turning them [sc. men] into..lambkins gamboling about her on the green. I was among those gambolers, I confess. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1587 |
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