different between tomfoolery vs gambol

English

Etymology

From Tom (a common man) +? foolery.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?m?fu?l.?.?i/

Noun

tomfoolery (countable and uncountable, plural tomfooleries)

1. Foolish behaviour or speech.
2. (Cockney rhyming slang) jewellery.

Synonyms

• (foolish behaviour or speech): buffoonery

Translations

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