Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gimble
Participle: gimbled
Gerund: gimbling
Indicative
Present
| I | gimble |
| you | gimble |
| he;she;it | gimbles |
| we | gimble |
| you | gimble |
| they | gimble |
Perfect
| I | have gimbled |
| you | have gimbled |
| he;she;it | has gimbled |
| we | have gimbled |
| you | have gimbled |
| they | have gimbled |
Past
| I | gimbled |
| you | gimbled |
| he;she;it | gimbled |
| we | gimbled |
| you | gimbled |
| they | gimbled |
Pluperfect
| I | had gimbled |
| you | had gimbled |
| he;she;it | had gimbled |
| we | had gimbled |
| you | had gimbled |
| they | had gimbled |
Future
| I | will gimble |
| you | will gimble |
| he;she;it | will gimble |
| we | will gimble |
| you | will gimble |
| they | will gimble |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gimbled |
| you | will have gimbled |
| he;she;it | will have gimbled |
| we | will have gimbled |
| you | will have gimbled |
| they | will have gimbled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gimble |
| you | gimble |
| he;she;it | gimble |
| we | gimble |
| you | gimble |
| they | gimble |
Perfect
| I | have gimbled |
| you | have gimbled |
| he;she;it | have gimbled |
| we | have gimbled |
| you | have gimbled |
| they | have gimbled |
Imperfect
| I | gimbled |
| you | gimbled |
| he;she;it | gimbled |
| we | gimbled |
| you | gimbled |
| they | gimbled |
Pluperfect
| I | had gimbled |
| you | had gimbled |
| he;she;it | had gimbled |
| we | had gimbled |
| you | had gimbled |
| they | had gimbled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gimble |
| you | would gimble |
| he;she;it | would gimble |
| we | would gimble |
| you | would gimble |
| they | would gimble |
Perfect
| I | would have gimbled |
| you | would have gimbled |
| he;she;it | would have gimbled |
| we | would have gimbled |
| you | would have gimbled |
| they | would have gimbled |
Imperative
| you | gimble |
| we | Let's gimble |
| you | gimble |
Verbs conjugated like 'gimble'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'gimble'
bimble,
fimble,
gamble,
gimblet,
wimble,
amble,
bibble,
bumble,
dibble,
dimple,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Compared by the EDD to dialectal Swedish gimla (“to move the lips in an unseemly manner, to make a wry face, to move the lips awry”). Compare also North Frisian gēmeli (“to move the lips before laughing”). Nall compares Old English ginian; the hard g in this form needs explanation (its standard English descendant is yawn), though the EDD does record a variant form jimble (/ˈjɪmbəl/). See: Old English '
ginian'.
Sample Sentences
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GIMBLE, v. to grin or smile. Though the g in this word is hard […] ] [[1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Angliahttps://archive.org/details/vocabularyeasta06forbgoog, vol. II, p. 131]
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[…] I'd pull up at the garden-gate to take a bunch of flowers to stick in my buttonhole, and get a smile from ye that seemed to gimble itself through and through my buzzum ! [1842 May, John Mills, “The Stage Coach; or The Road of Life”, in The Sporting Magazine, volume 15, number 145, page 241:]
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[T]wo fine powdered footmen, all yellow, and green, and gold lace, comed running to open the door [...] one of them, giving a knowing wink to the other, all the same as if they took me for a burglar comed under fictious pretences to make observations. [...] Well, they gimbled at that again. Howsomever, the sight of the money kinder brought one of them to reason, so he took me into Mr. Maplestone's room at last; […] [1861, Agnes Strickland, Old Friends and New Acquaintances, page 364:]
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[1878, Samuel Henry Miller, Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly, The Fenland, Past and Present, iv
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Gimble—to grin or smile, (N.)]
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"Now then, what are yow gimbling¹ at, young mester?" he said. [1888, George Manville Fenn, Dick o' the Fens, page 52:]
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[…]sometimes they ‘giffle’ (fidget) or ‘gimble’ (grin) […] [[1897, “Norfolk”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 185, page 147:]