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Gallivant

//ˈɡæl.ɪ.vænt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To roam about for pleasure without any definite plan. intransitive

    "Bertram, it is true, when he heard of the plan, rebelled, and asserted that what Billy needed was a rest, an entire rest from care and labor. In fact, what he wanted her to do, he said, was to gallivant – to gallivant all day long."

  2. 2
    wander aimlessly in search of pleasure wordnet
  3. 3
    To flirt, to romance. intransitive, obsolete

Etymology

1809, from gallant (“wooing women”), originally in sense “to flirt”, broadened to mean “roaming without plan”.

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