It's the Word of the Day podcast for July 8th.

Today's word is Gamble, spelled G-A-M-B-O-L. Gamble is a verb. It means to run or jump in a lively way. It's used as a synonym of the word frolic.

Here's the word used in a sentence from the New York Times. There's also charming footage of a couple gambling in Central Park that might be some of the first scenes Warhol ever shot.

They're so lighthearted and playful. They're more in the

spirit of his jaunty commercial drawings from the 1950s than of the deadpan pop art he was just then

perfecting. In Middle French, the noun Gombardt referred to the frisky spring of a jumping horse. In the early

1500s, its influence leapt into English twice, lending a playful bounce to both noun and

verb forms of the word gamble, spelled G-A-M-B-O-L. The noun means a skipping or leaping about in play. Neither English word is

restricted to horses, but rather can be used of any frolicsome creature. The more common of the

two, the verb, suggests levity and spontaneity, and it tends to be used, especially of the lively activity of children or

animals engaged in active play. With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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