All 3 Uses of
gambol
in
Animal Farm
- In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into the air in great leaps of excitement.
p. 22.1 *gambolled = frolicked (moved playfully)unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use gamboled.
- And when they thought of how they had labored, what discouragements they had overcome, and the enormous difference that would be made in their lives when the sails were turning and the dynamos running — when they thought of all this, their tiredness forsook them and they gambolled round and round the windmill, uttering cries of triumph.
p. 98.8
- And finally there was a tremendous baying of dogs and a shrill crowing from the black cockerel, and out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gambolling round him.
p. 133.5gambolling = frolicking (leaping playfully)unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use gamboling.
Definitions:
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(1)
(gambol) to frolic (skip, leap, and/or run around in a happy, playful manner)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, Gambol references a name.