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"ref": "1874 October, “Salad Days”, in The American Educational Monthly, page 462",
"text": "The season of salad days has been rightly called a season of folly—rightly, because nature wisely intended salad days for folly, and we are wise to regard them as a time for folly. But are we wise when, halting upon the crutches age finds convenient after the gambols of youth have lost their attractions, we condemn this season of harmless folly to perpetual reprobation?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An instance of more general frisking or frolicking."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡæm.bəl/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æmbəl"
},
{
"homophone": "gamble"
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊl"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-gambol.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b4/En-us-gambol.ogg/En-us-gambol.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/En-us-gambol.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-gambol.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-gambol.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-gambol.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-gambol.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-gambol.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"text": "Audio (UK)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "podskok",
"sense": "instance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "подскок"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "instance",
"word": "kirmailu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "instance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gambade"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "xṭunaoba",
"sense": "instance",
"word": "ხტუნაობა"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "celkoba",
"sense": "instance",
"word": "ცელქობა"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "cigligi",
"sense": "instance",
"word": "ციგლიგი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "navardi",
"sense": "instance",
"word": "ნავარდი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "instance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Tollerei"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "instance",
"word": "tuapa"
}
],
"word": "gambol"
}
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