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Definition of gallivant in English: gallivantverb ˈɡalɪvantˌɡalɪˈvantˈɡæləˌvænt informal no object, with adverbial Go around from one place to another in the pursuit of pleasure or entertainment. she quit her job to go gallivanting around the globe Example sentencesExamples - Still, there are the perks - travel benefits and the simple thrill of living a life that involves gallivanting across the globe.
- Today, as the father of two children, he no longer gallivants about the globe but brings his music to Festivals.
- In fact, the audience is very much like one of her suitors, left to comfort each other drunkenly while she gallivants with someone new.
- We have real issues that require to be addressed and instead this imbecile gallivants all over the country appearing on radio stations to perpetuate his agenda.
- I don't mean to sound so chaste, but somebody must stop this girl before she gallivants down the street in the full nude.
- After gallivanting round the globe, seeking pleasures afar, indulging in greed and commercialism, the scandal and the posturing were all supposed to be left behind as we were reintroduced to more homely joys.
- Most eccentric of the children is Carolyn, now 54, who gallivants about in a flat black Gaucho hat, paints and teaches art classes.
- I'm so happy to know that I'm the only one who gallivants around town in leggings and boots.
- I cannot be gallivanting across the high seas in constant pursuit of a runaway ship.
- John now works for the Press Association and gallivants all over the world in search of great pictures.
- Jaded juniors signed in, dumped their belongings in dormitory common rooms, and gallivanted out to Prospect Avenue.
- Right now, there is a long pathetic line of investors waiting for government approval, while the Cabinet gallivants around the world.
- Compared to other countries that have thousands of their nationals gallivanting in all corners of the globe Zambia is relatively comfortable and able to provide for its people.
- I met a con artist earlier this year and this con artist was gallivanting all around the country pretending to be someone else and I met up with him and traveled with him for over a week.
- The tale gallivants from London to Boston to Cairo, stopping in at circuses, speakeasies, ocean liners, and the well-appointed apartments of an invert.
- I'm always disappointed when I see our governors, our supposed masters, gallivanting about with the rich of the world.
- Lea, a lively and curious lion cub, gallivants all over the savanna until she is frightened by a rhinoceros.
- While in India she left her husband, abandoned her 10-year-old son and gallivanted around Madras with a young unmarried escort.
- He credits his wife, who gave up acting to be a full-time mom, with keeping the family going while he gallivants around the world.
- He then sups it up and gallivants through New Jersey fighting aliens while destroying half of his town in the process.
Synonyms gad, flit, jaunt, run, roam, wander, travel, range, rove, ramble, traipse, stray
Origin Early 19th century: perhaps an alteration of gallant. gallant from Middle English: Gallant at one time could describe an attractive or fine-looking woman. Here is the poet John Lyly writing in 1579: ‘This gallant girl, more fair than fortunate, and yet more fortunate than faithful’. It was also once used to mean ‘excellent, splendid, or noble’, as in ‘A more gallant and beautiful armada never before quitted the shores of Spain’ (William H. Prescott, 1838). Gallant came into English in the Middle Ages in the sense ‘finely dressed’, from Old French galant ‘celebrating’, from gale ‘pleasure or rejoicing’, also the source of gala (early 17th century). The modern sense ‘politely attentive to women’ was adopted from French into English in the 17th century. Gallivant (early 19th century), meaning ‘to go from place to place in pursuit of pleasure’, may be a playful alteration of gallant.
Definition of gallivant in US English: gallivantverbˈɡaləˌvantˈɡæləˌvænt informal no object, with adverbial Go around from one place to another in the pursuit of pleasure or entertainment. she quit her job to go gallivanting around the globe Example sentencesExamples - I met a con artist earlier this year and this con artist was gallivanting all around the country pretending to be someone else and I met up with him and traveled with him for over a week.
- I'm so happy to know that I'm the only one who gallivants around town in leggings and boots.
- While in India she left her husband, abandoned her 10-year-old son and gallivanted around Madras with a young unmarried escort.
- I don't mean to sound so chaste, but somebody must stop this girl before she gallivants down the street in the full nude.
- He then sups it up and gallivants through New Jersey fighting aliens while destroying half of his town in the process.
- In fact, the audience is very much like one of her suitors, left to comfort each other drunkenly while she gallivants with someone new.
- Right now, there is a long pathetic line of investors waiting for government approval, while the Cabinet gallivants around the world.
- The tale gallivants from London to Boston to Cairo, stopping in at circuses, speakeasies, ocean liners, and the well-appointed apartments of an invert.
- He credits his wife, who gave up acting to be a full-time mom, with keeping the family going while he gallivants around the world.
- After gallivanting round the globe, seeking pleasures afar, indulging in greed and commercialism, the scandal and the posturing were all supposed to be left behind as we were reintroduced to more homely joys.
- I cannot be gallivanting across the high seas in constant pursuit of a runaway ship.
- We have real issues that require to be addressed and instead this imbecile gallivants all over the country appearing on radio stations to perpetuate his agenda.
- Today, as the father of two children, he no longer gallivants about the globe but brings his music to Festivals.
- Compared to other countries that have thousands of their nationals gallivanting in all corners of the globe Zambia is relatively comfortable and able to provide for its people.
- Jaded juniors signed in, dumped their belongings in dormitory common rooms, and gallivanted out to Prospect Avenue.
- John now works for the Press Association and gallivants all over the world in search of great pictures.
- Most eccentric of the children is Carolyn, now 54, who gallivants about in a flat black Gaucho hat, paints and teaches art classes.
- Lea, a lively and curious lion cub, gallivants all over the savanna until she is frightened by a rhinoceros.
- Still, there are the perks - travel benefits and the simple thrill of living a life that involves gallivanting across the globe.
- I'm always disappointed when I see our governors, our supposed masters, gallivanting about with the rich of the world.
Synonyms gad, flit, jaunt, run, roam, wander, travel, range, rove, ramble, traipse, stray
Origin Early 19th century: perhaps an alteration of gallant. |