different between gambol vs lirt

English

Etymology

From earlier gambolde, from Middle French gambade (modern gambade).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??æm.b?l/
• Rhymes: -æmb?l
• Homophone: gamble

Verb

gambol (third-person singular simple present gambols, present participle (UK) gambolling or (US) gamboling, simple past and past participle (UK) gambolled or (US) gamboled)

1. (intransitive) To move about playfully; to frolic.
   • 1835: William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan: A Romance of the Revolution, chapter XI, page 134 (Harper)

     The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled.

   • In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into great leaps of excitement.
2. (Britain, West Midlands) To do a forward roll.

Translations

Noun

gambol (plural gambols)

1. An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
2. An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.

Translations

Tagalog

Adjective

gamból

1. badly beaten up (as of the body)
2. badly bruised (as of fruits, the body, etc.)

Derived terms

• gambulin
• gumambol

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English lirten, lurten (“to cheat”), from Old English *lyrtan (found only in belyrtan (“to deceive”)), from Proto-West Germanic *lurtijan (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *lerd- (“to bend, crook”). Cognate with Scots lirt (“to cheat, deceive, delude”), Middle High German lürzen (“to deceive”), Middle High German lerz, lurz, lorz (“left, left-handed”), Old English lort, lyrt (“crooked”).

Alternative forms

• lirte

Verb

lirt (third-person singular simple present lirts, present participle lirting, simple past and past participle lirted)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To deceive; beguile.
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To cheat; befool.

Derived terms

• belirt

Noun

lirt (plural lirts)

1. (Britain dialectal) Deception; guile.
2. (Britain dialectal) A cheat; a go-by.

Etymology 2

Origin obscure. Perhaps alteration of lirk (“to jerk”).

Verb

lirt (third-person singular simple present lirts, present participle lirting, simple past and past participle lirted)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To toss.
2. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To walk or move in a quick, lively, or pert manner.
3. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To gambol; frisk.

Anagrams

• tirl