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prettygoodwordgamble (GAM-buhl) - to play any game of chance for money or other stakes.
Plus extended meanings. This is another where a sound change obscures the stem: it's game + frequentive -le, and some time between Middle English and Modern English, a /b/ got assimilated in there.
---L.
Plus extended meanings. This is another where a sound change obscures the stem: it's game + frequentive -le, and some time between Middle English and Modern English, a /b/ got assimilated in there.
---L.
