Gambol vs Wander - What's the difference?
gambol | wander |
To move about playfully; to frolic.
* 1835 : (Harper)
* 1907 : Paul Lafargue, The rights of the horse , page 160
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* 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.
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(lb) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
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*(Bible), (w) xi.37:
*:They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
(lb) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
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*(Bible), (Psalms) cxix.10:
*:O, let me not wander from thy commandments.
(lb) To commit adultery.
(lb) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
(lb) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
As verbs the difference between gambol and wander
is that gambol is to move about playfully; to frolic while wander is (lb) to move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.As nouns the difference between gambol and wander
is that gambol is an instance of running or skipping about playfully while wander is the act or instance of wandering.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.