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Loll vs Gambol - What's the difference?

loll | gambol |

As verbs the difference between loll and gambol

is that loll is to act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease while gambol is to move about playfully; to frolic.

As a noun gambol is

an instance of running or skipping about playfully.

loll

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.
  • * Dryden
    • Void of care, he lolls supine in state.
  • * 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
    • The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
  • To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
  • * Dryden
    • The triple porter of the Stygian seat, / With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet.
  • To let the tongue hang from the mouth in this way.
    • The ox stood lolling in the furrow.

    Synonyms

    * slack * relax

    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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