gadabout
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Noun[edit]
gadabout (plural gadabouts)
- A person who restlessly moves from place to place, seeking amusement or the companionship of others.
- Synonym: social butterfly
- 2021, Pedro Mairal, chapter 11, in The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- I was among the last to board the ferry. ... Chilean tourists, Uruguayan doctors, old Argentine gadabouts of high-society heritage, ladies wearing strident perfumes, families, all of them in those same light blue sneakers, like Smurfs.
Translations[edit]
person who restlessly moves from place to place seeking amusement or the companionship of others
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