Pleasantry vs Gambol - What's the difference?
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A casual, courteous remark
A playful remark; a jest
* 2014 , Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard'' (in ''The Guardian , 18 November 2014)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/18/scotland-england-international-friendly-match-report]
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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Pleasantry is a related term of gambol.
As nouns the difference between pleasantry and gambol
is that pleasantry is a casual, courteous remark while gambol is an instance of running or skipping about playfully.As a verb gambol is
to move about playfully; to frolic.pleasantry
English
Noun
(pleasantries)- Charlie Mulgrew could easily have been shown two yellow cards by a stricter referee and amid all the usual Anglo-Scottish pleasantries , the two sets of fans put an awful lot of effort into trying to drown out one another’s national anthems.
See also
*small talkgambol
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.