gallivant
verb/ˈɡæl.ɪ.vænt/UK/ˈɡæl.ɪ.vænt/US
Etymology
1809, from gallant (“wooing women”), originally in sense “to flirt”, broadened to mean “roaming without plan”.
Definitions
To roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.
- 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.
- Rather than sit and gawk at my nonadoring mother and sister, I gallivanted outdoors until it was time to hit the sack.
To flirt, to romance.
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Derived
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA