单词 | stravaig |
释义 | stravaigv. Chiefly Scottish, northern, and Irish English. intransitive. To wander about aimlessly. Also in general literary use, and occasionally transitive with road as object. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > idly roil?c1335 gada1500 stavera1500 vaguea1525 scoterlope1574 idle1599 haika1605 saunter1671 stravaig1801 palmer1805 streel1805 taver1808 traik1818 gander1822 gallivant1823 gilravage1825 project1828 daud1831 meander1831 to knock about1833 to kick about1839 to knock round1848 piroot1858 sashay1865 june1869 tootle1902 slop1907 beetle1919 stooge1941 swan1942 1801 J. Leyden in Complaynt Scotl. Gloss. 379 To vaig is in common use, as well as stravaig. 1825 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 381 The belts o' plantations are no very wide, nor the sherubberies stravagin awa into wild mountainous regions o'..breckans. 1831 S. Lover Legends & Stories Ireland p. xxiv Stravaig, to ramble. 1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North III. 293 Those heartless clouds that keep stravaigging over mountain-tops. 1871 W. Black Daughter of Heth II. vi. 85 ‘Nonsense!’ said Lady Drum. ‘Would you have an old woman like me stravaiging about the shore by myself?’ 1876 C. M. Yonge Three Brides I. xvi. 279 Her own children, which it is a shame to see stravaging about the place! 1887 W. E. Henley Villon's Straight Tip 23 At any graft, no matter what, Your merry goblins soon stravag. 1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters 26 Where have you been stravaiging to? 1905 A. I. Shand Days of Past xiv. 275 Those stravaiging cottage cats. 1929 E. Bowen Last September i. viii. 93 They do be stravaging about always and not contented at all. 1934 T. E. Lawrence Let. 23 Nov. (1938) 830 Visit it, sometime, if you still stravage the roads of England in a great car. 1958 S. Beckett From Abandoned Work 14 I might be sprawling in the sun now sucking my pipe..wondering what there was for dinner, instead of stravaging the same old road in all weathers. Derivatives straˈvaiger n. /strəˈveɪɡə(r)/ ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer striker1393 roamerc1400 wandererc1440 whirlerc1440 gangrela1450 fluttererc1450 straggler1530 gadlinga1542 ranger1560 rover1568 fugitive1570 rangler1575 fleeter1581 extravagant1583 scatterling1590 vagranta1592 rambler1624 erratic1669 stravaiger1821 multivagant1895 1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xiii. 132 Lady Macadam's hens and fowls..being great stravaggers for their meat. straˈvaiging n. and adj. /strəˈveɪɡɪŋ/ ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering wandering1362 roamingc1390 roving?1520 error1594 rangling1594 wanderment1597 rambling1622 rolling1624 vagancy1641 roverya1653 pervagation1656 oberration1658 vagrancya1677 stravaiging1825 scamander1873 outwandering1880 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering wanderingc1000 erringa1340 waggeringa1382 vagant1382 vagabond1426 erroneousa1464 fugitive1481 wavering1487 vagrantc1522 gadding1545 roaming1566 roving1576 straggling1589 rambling?1609 wagand1614 wheelinga1616 gadling1616 vagring1619 erratical1620 vaguing1627 erratic1656 planetical1656 waif1724 vagrarious1795 stravaiging1825 vagarious1882 pirooting1958 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Stravaiging, strolling about. 1884 A. S. Swan Carlowrie x. 152 Miss Ritchie's peacock had taken what she called a stravagin' turn. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1801 |
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