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Antic is a related term of gambol.


As an adjective antic

is ancient.

As a verb gambol is

to move about playfully; to frolic.

As a noun gambol is

an instance of running or skipping about playfully.

antic

English

Alternative forms

* antick

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (architecture, arts) Grotesque, incongruous.
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  • Grotesque, bizarre; absurd.
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    • Related terms

    * ancient * antiquary * antiquarian * antiquated * antique * antiquity

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture, arts, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
  • A caricature.
  • (often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour.
  • * Wordsworth
    • And fraught with antics as the Indian bird / That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage.
  • * 1953 , John Christopher, Blemish
    • I saw the barren horror of your people's leisure with the million entertained by the antics of a tiny few
  • * 2007 , , Time To Add A Cute Kid To The Cast Questionable Content Number 951
    • Pintsize: Wait, don’t you want to know why I’m tied up and hanging from the ceiling? / Faye: Not really. Nighty night! / Pintsize: Shit! My wacky antics have jumped the shark!
  • A grotesque performer or clown.
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  • A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping

    • Verb

  • To perform antics.
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  • (obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
  • * , Act II, Scene VII:
    • Gentle lords, let's part; / You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb / Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue / Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost / Antick'd us all.
  • (rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
  • * 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 70:
    • She unfastened her dress, her arms arched thin and high, her shadow anticking her movements.
  • To make appear like a buffoon.
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    References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989 * *

    Anagrams

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    gambol

    English

    Verb

  • To move about playfully; to frolic.
  • * 1835 : (Harper)
    • The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled .
  • * 1907 : Paul Lafargue, The rights of the horse , page 160
    • […] she remains near him to suckle him and teach him to choose the delicious grasses of the meadow, in which he gambols until he is grown.
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    • In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into great leaps of excitement.
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  • * 1995 : Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer , page 286 (ISBN 0553380966)
    • Three girls moved across the billiard-table lawn of a great manor house, circling and swarming about a common center of gravity like gamboling sparrows.
  • (British, West Midlands) to do a forward roll

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
  • * 1843 : , The Gold Bug , page 10
    • When his gambols were over, I looked at the paper, and, to speak the truth, found myself not a little puzzled at what my friend had depicted.
  • An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.
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