Gambol vs Crawl - What's the difference?
gambol | crawl |
To move about playfully; to frolic.
* 1835 : (Harper)
* 1907 : Paul Lafargue, The rights of the horse , page 160
*
*
* 1995 : Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer , page 286 (ISBN 0553380966)
(British, West Midlands) to do a forward roll
An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
* 1843 : , The Gold Bug , page 10
An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.
*
To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
* Grew
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
To act in a servile manner.
* Shakespeare
See crawl with.
To feel a ing sensation.
To swim using the crawl stroke.
To move over an area on hands and knees.
To visit while becoming inebriated.
To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops
A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick
(television, film) A piece of horizontally scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
In intransitive terms the difference between gambol and crawl
is that gambol is to move about playfully; to frolic while crawl is to visit while becoming inebriated.gambol
English
Verb
- The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled .
- […] 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.
- In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into great leaps of excitement.
- 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.
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
crawl
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crawlen, (m), ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another.
citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
- hath crawled into the favour of the king
Derived terms
* crawlerDescendants
* German:Noun
(en noun)- The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.