gallivanting
gallivanting is the present participle and gerund of gallivant.
Meaning of gallivant
Verb
gallivant (third-person singular simple present gallivants, present participle gallivanting, simple past and past participle gallivanted)
- 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.1914, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 18, in Miss Billy – Married, page 214
- Synonyms:
- gad
- To flirt, to romance.
- 'That you never go gallivanting with Chloe again. You both "don't mean anything", but suppose you did happen to get the girl discharged with a very dubious character? Should you see any alternative to behaving either as a fool or a knave to put it right?'1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
Noun
gallivanting (plural gallivantings)
- Roaming about for pleasure.
- In his younger gallivantings about places of ill repute, and his subsequent occasional variations from the straight and narrow path, he had learned much of the curious resources of immorality.1912, Theodore Dreiser, The Financier
Forms of gallivanting
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Questions about gallivanting
- What does gallivanting mean?
- Gallivanting means roaming about for pleasure.
- What is gallivanting the present participle and gerund of?
- Gallivanting is the present participle and gerund of gallivant.
- What part of speech is gallivanting?
- Gallivanting is a noun.
- What is the plural of gallivanting?
- The plural of gallivanting is gallivantings.
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