gallivantingn.
/ˌɡalɪˈvantɪŋ//ˈɡalɪvatɪŋ/ The action of the verb.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wandering idly
roilinga1398
roitinga1450
gadding1533
vaguing1596
expatiation1640
strolling1717
gallivanting1826
streeling1841
traiking1894
stooging1944
swanning1951
1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 9 Feb. (1939) 94 If we had been so [in retreat] last year, instead of gallivanting to Ireland, this affair might not have befallen.
1839 W. M. Thackeray Fatal Boots (1869) 354 I have given up gallivanting, as I call it.
1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xv. 116 It don't mean much, only just idle talking and gallivanting.
1884 Punch 16 Feb. 76/1 This comes of gallivanting round with Emperors, Kings, Prime Ministers, and Poet-Laureates.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
gallivantingadj.
That gads about, or flirts.
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the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [adjective] > that flirts
dallying1548
flirting1577
coquetting1657
gallanting1664
philandering1800
gallivanting1819
1819 ‘R. Rabelais’ Abeillard & Heloisa 18 But does that gallivanting god Deign to give Taylor answering nod?
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. i. 8 You can't be a gallivanting dodger.
1884 Harper's Mag. Aug. 327/1 A lone lorn wife of many a galivanting husband.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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