gallivant
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1809, from gallant (“wooing women”),[1] originally in sense “to flirt”, broadened to mean “roaming without plan”.
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gallivant (third-person singular simple present gallivants, present participle gallivanting, simple past and past participle gallivanted)
- (intransitive) To roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.
- 1914 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. — Eleanor H.Porter Miss Billy--Married, Chapter 18.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To flirt, to romance.
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- (roam without plan): gad
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roam about for pleasure
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flirt, romance
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