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Joviality vs Gambol - What's the difference?

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Joviality is a related term of gambol.


As nouns the difference between joviality and gambol

is that joviality is the state of being jovial; jollity or conviviality while gambol is an instance of running or skipping about playfully.

As a verb gambol is

to move about playfully; to frolic.

joviality

English

Noun

  • The state of being jovial; jollity or conviviality

    • 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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