Gambole

[Slooow_Jo]

Does anyone know what a gambole is? Its a word I've grown up with & presumed it was universal. But I've just read that apparently it is only a brummie (Birmingham) saying! So has anyone else here heard of it?

Some others that I thought were said everywhere are

Tip top
Donny
Cob

Any ideas?

[johnny.5]

its a rolling type of somersault


Am I right ?
I'm not wrong !

[Ethel]

Gambol isn't a Brummie saying, it's a proper word listed in all the English dictionaries:

gambol verb (gambolled, gambolling; US also gamboled, gamboling) intrans to jump around playfully. noun jumping around playfully; a frolic.
ETYMOLOGY: 16c: from Italian gamba leg.

This is from a Scottish poem:
Twas Christmas broach�d the mightiest ale;
�Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man�s heart through half the year.

All the other words are universal too

[A.Guest]

Chambers dictionary lists gambol as Ethel says . . . .

But no trace of the word gambole.

[Slooow_Jo]

The brummie version of gambole is a forward roll.

So what about the other 3?

& another, pikelets?

[Ethel]

Tip top - first class; excellent
cob - bread roll; hazlenut; a type of horse; a sulk 'he's got a right cob on'

Don't know about donny

Pikelet - called 'crumpet' in some parts of the coutry, a circular piece of dough 2" thick with a lot of holes, for toasting and eating with lots of butter

[Slooow_Jo]

2/4 Ethel

I was thinking of another type of tip top.

But bread roll & crumpet are correct :o)

[Ethel]

Tip top - frozen ice lolly in a tube

[mccfluff]

whats donny?

[Slooow_Jo]

Right again Ethel.

I'll wait a bit longer to see if anyone gets donny :o)

[mccfluff]

hands?

[Slooow_Jo]

Yes mccfluff :o)

[mccfluff]

yeahhhhhhhhhhh ( i had to phone a friend in deepest darkest brum)

[Slooow_Jo]

So donnys must only be used in brum then :o)

[Ethel]

Oh! I know 'donnies' for hands in baby talk.

[Slooow_Jo]

My fault for the spelling then Ethel so full marks :o)