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Lambling vs Gambling - What's the difference?

lambling | gambling |

As nouns the difference between lambling and gambling

is that lambling is a young or little lamb while gambling is an activity characterised by a balance between winning and losing that is governed by a mixture of skill and chance, usually with money wagered on the outcome.

As a verb gambling is

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lambling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A young or little lamb.
  • *1843 , Punch Or The London Charivari - Volume 5 - Page 83:
  • I have seen the lamblings skipping In sunshine and in mist; [...]
  • *1905 , William Makepeace Thackeray, The works of William Makepeace Thackeray :
  • These woolly lamblings were immensely affected by his exhortations, and when he gave out the hymn, there was such a negro chorus about the house as might be heard across the Potomac — such a chorus as would never have been heard [...]
  • *2007 , Hugh B. Urban, Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 115 :
  • These two pivots of the Great Wheel, blended, had brought men, women and children in their thousands, to kill some miserable lambling . . . on the temple steps in stonement for their sins [...]

    gambling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An activity characterised by a balance between winning and losing that is governed by a mixture of skill and chance, usually with money wagered on the outcome.
  • See also

    * game of chance