wantoning

Verb

wanton (third-person singular simple present wantons, present participle wantoning, simple past and past participle wantoned)

1. (intransitive) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
   • […] We will fetch thee straight / Adonis painted by a running brook, / And Cytherea all in sedges hid, / Which seem to move and wanton with her breath / Even as the waving sedges play wi’ th’ wind.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

   Synonyms:

   revel, romp

2. (transitive) To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).
   • The young man wantoned away his inheritance.

   Synonyms:

   lavish, splash out, splurge, throw away

3. (intransitive) To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.
   • Be loving and courteous to your fellow Servants, not gigling or idling out your time, or wantoning in the society of men […]1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 62

   Synonyms:

   colt, rig, blissom, chamber, gill, harlot, harlotize, minx, rake, slut

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