jauntn.1
/dʒɔːnt/, /dʒɑːnt/, U.S. /dʒɔnt/, /dʒɑnt/ 1. A fatiguing or troublesome journey. (Now only as an ironical use of 2: cf. dance n.)
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > painful or unpleasant
jaunt1597
jaunce1599
schlep1962
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iv. 26 Lord how my bones ake... Fie, what a iaunt [1599 iaunce, 1623 iaunt] haue I had.
1599 Warning for Faire Women ii. 270 Where have I been? where I have had a jaunt Able to tire a horse.
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 216 This Part have I run over: and lead my Reader a long and tedious Jaunt in tracing out these..mineral Bodies.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II A Jaunt, a tedious, fatiguing Walk.
1753 Extracts Trial J. Stewart in Scots Mag. Nov. 552/1 I arrived here, after a very troublesome jaunt.
1756 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 360 Last night I returned from a very long and troublesome jaunt on the Frontiers.
1879 R. Browning Ivan Ivanovitch in Idyls I. 52 This rough jaunt—alone through night and snow.
2. An excursion, a trip, or journey, esp. one taken for pleasure.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > excursion > for pleasure
jaunt1678
trip1749
excursion1779
run1780
pleasure trip1829
pleasuring1869
booze cruise1994
1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Epistles vii. 63 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) The next day they take the same Jaunt over again.
1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. xliii. 186 She..made him take a Jant [Fr. le feit cheminer] nine Times round the Fountain.
1725 G. Rochfort Let. to Swift in J. Swift Wks. (1841) II. 577 If you have not got rid of your cold, I would prescribe a small jaunt to Belcamp this morning.
1736 H. Walpole Corr. (1820) I. 8 I have been a jaunt to Oxford.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 162 Your idle jants, taken for amusement only.
1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 120 The French gentry of late have become so fond of jaunts of pleasure.
1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 203 He was on his marriage jaunt.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > [noun] > manner of carrying body > jaunty
jaunt1721
the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [noun] > light-heartedness > expressed in carriage of the body
jaunt1721
1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1726) xlvi. 256 He has a delicate jaunt in his gait.
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† jauntn.2
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
A felloe of a wheel.
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Jaunts, the Fellows of a Wheel.
1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. ; and in mod. Dicts.
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jauntv.
/dʒɔːnt/, /dʒɑːnt/, U.S. /dʒɔnt/, /dʒɑnt/ I. Senses related to prancing and trotting.† 1. transitive (?) To make (a horse) prance up and down; to exercise or tire a horse by riding him up and down. Obsolete.† 2. intransitive (?) To prance. Obsolete. rare.† 3. transitive. To carry up and down on a prancing horse; to ‘cart about’ in a vehicle. Obsolete. rare.† 4. intransitive. Of a person: To trot or trudge about (with the notion of exertion or fatigue); to run to and fro. Obsolete or archaic.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > cause to prance
prance1530
jaunt1570
jaunce1597
curvetc1600
1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iv. f. 45 Then followeth Saint Stephens day, whereon doth euery man, His horses iaunt and course abrode, as swiftly as he can.
1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 34v For euery trifle leaue iauncing [1577 iancing; 1580 ianting] thy Nagge, but rather make Lacky of Iack boy thy Nagge.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Iancer vn cheval, to stirre a horse in the stable till hee sweat withall: or (as our) to iaunt: an old word.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > caper
leapc900
playOE
floxec1200
startlec1300
trancec1374
prancec1380
tripc1386
scoupa1400
prankc1450
gambol1508
frisk?1520
jeta1529
pract1568
trounce1568
trip1578
capriole1580
lavolta1590
linch1593
curvet1595
flisk1595
firk1596
caper1598
jaunce1599
risec1599
cabre1600
jaunt1605
skit1611
to cut a caper or capersa1616
tripudiate1623
insult1652
to fike and flinga1689
scamper1691
dance1712
pranklea1717
cavort1794
jinket1823
gambado1827
caracol1861
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [verb (intransitive)] > leap or prance
tripc1386
prancea1398
brank?1400
leapc1405
gambol?1507
curvet1584
jet1587
jaunt1605
scope1607
stilt1786
caracol1813
prank1842
cavort1843–4
tittup1862
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 372 Th' angry Steed..All side-long iaunts, on either side he iustles, And's wauing Crest couragiously he bristles.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > cause (one) to ride > on a prancing horse
jaunt1574
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport or convey in a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > about
jaunt1818
1574 J. Studley tr. J. Bale Pageant of Popes vi. 126 b He [Boniface VIII] was set vpon an vnbroken coult with his face to the horse tayle, and so caused to ride a gallop and iaunted til he were breathlesse.
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 120 To get into a Grecian car, and to be drawn, with Minerva at his back..four or five miles through the streets of London..after having quietly suffered himself to be jaunted about in this manner [etc.].
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > toilsomely
swinkc1175
labourc1438
toil1563
jaunt1575
strivea1586
tug1619
swog1637
hag1728
flog1925
to lame-duck it1943
trog1984
1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia sig. Eiv Why dyd I ride run and reuell, And for all my iaunting now am made a Jauell?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet (1623) ii. iv. 52 Sending me about To catch my death with iaunting [1599 iaunsing] vp and downe.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Jaunt, to go, trot, or trudge up and down.
c1771 S. Foote Maid of Bath iii. 52 Running backwards and forwards to town and jaunting to see all the fine sights.
1892 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 337 The one omnibus jaunts about seeking travellers.
5. intransitive. To make a short journey, trip, or excursion; to take a jaunt, now, esp., for pleasure. Also †jaunt it.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > make short journey or excursion, esp. for pleasure
to go abroadc1400
to make an errandc1400
to look out1551
jaunt1647
out1653
trip1664
to make or take a step1670
to step up1758
run1759
excursion1792
excursionize1866
tripper1959
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs x. 183 He, to his Moores..o're the Pyren mountains jaunts.
1766 Garrick in G. Coleman's Posth. Lett. (1820) 292 We are jaunting it for a few days.
1803 E. S. Bowne Let. in Scribner's Mag. (1887) Aug. 178/1 I am most tired of jaunting.
1848 C. C. Clifford tr. Aristophanes Frogs 37 He'd to the market jaunt.
1895 Daily News 13 Feb. 5/5 The Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs [of Dublin] jaunting over to London with the petition presented themselves..at the door of the House.
II. Influenced by jaunty adj.
6. intransitive. To move jauntily: cf. jaunt n.1 3. rare.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > jauntily
lilt1834
jaunt1890
1890 R. Bridges Shorter Poems ii. 8 Jaunt and sing outright As by their teams they stride.
Derivatives
ˈjaunting n. also used attributively: cf. jaunting-car n.
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society > travel > [noun] > travelling for pleasure > go on a short trip > going on short trip
jauntinga1627
tripping1840
excursionizing1881
a1627 W. Rowley & T. Middleton Wit at Severall Weapons v. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Llllll5/2 'Lasse I'me weary with the walke, My jaunting dayes are done.
1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 7 In hopes the jaunting about a bit will make her forget the loss of her husband.
ˈjaunting adj.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [adjective] > making pleasure excursion
jaunting1813
1813 J. C. Hobhouse Journey 858 I have seen a circle of French gentlemen..after the manner of our jaunting citizens, amusing themselves with a Jew conjuror.
ˈjauntingly adv. [ < sense 6] jauntily.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adverb] > light-heartedly
lightlyc1225
carelessly1561
lightsomely1561
light-heartedly?1574
rakishly1700
jauntily1828
jauntingly1839
breezily1935
1839 New Monthly Mag. 56 70 With his forage-cap jauntingly cocked over one eye.
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