Today's Word "gambol"
To frolic
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gambol \GAM-buhl\ (intransitive verb) - To dance and skip about in play; to frolic.
(noun) - A skipping or leaping about in frolic.
"As he jogged along a little distance ahead of us, the young dogs would gambol about him, leap on his neck, worry at his ears, and endeavor to tease him..." -- Washington Irving, 'Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey'
Gambol, earlier gambolde or gambalde, comes from Medieval French gambade, "a leaping or skipping," from Late Latin gamba, "hock (of a horse), leg," from Greek kampe, "a joint or bend."
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