Word of the Day:
gallivant
What It Means
Gallivant in Context
“Rather than sit and gawk at my nonadoring mother and sister, I gallivanted outdoors until it was time to hit the sack.”
Did You Know?
1809, from gallant (“wooing women”), originally in sense “to flirt”, broadened to mean “roaming without plan”.
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