Post by t-bob on Jan 17, 2019 11:18:05 GMT -5
GABABOUT
noun
1. a person who moves about restlessly or aimlessly, especially from one social activity to another.
2. a person who travels often or to many different places, especially for pleasure.
Quotes
My mother-in-law calls me ... a gadabout? accuses me of going to unheard-of places, and thinks it ought to be joy enough for me to sit at home and count over my ancestors on my fingers. -- Henry James, The American, 1877 Oh Dapple, Dapple, you wild gadabout, how footloose you have become! -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616), Don Quixote, translated by John Rutherford, 2000
Origin
Gadabout is a noun use of the verb phrase (to) gad about “to move restlessly or aimlessly from place to place.” The Middle English verb gad, gadden is likely a back formation from the Old English noun gædeling “companion in arms, kinsman, fellow” and in the 16th century, “vagabond, wanderer”). Gadabout entered English in the 18th century.
noun
1. a person who moves about restlessly or aimlessly, especially from one social activity to another.
2. a person who travels often or to many different places, especially for pleasure.
Quotes
My mother-in-law calls me ... a gadabout? accuses me of going to unheard-of places, and thinks it ought to be joy enough for me to sit at home and count over my ancestors on my fingers. -- Henry James, The American, 1877 Oh Dapple, Dapple, you wild gadabout, how footloose you have become! -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616), Don Quixote, translated by John Rutherford, 2000
Origin
Gadabout is a noun use of the verb phrase (to) gad about “to move restlessly or aimlessly from place to place.” The Middle English verb gad, gadden is likely a back formation from the Old English noun gædeling “companion in arms, kinsman, fellow” and in the 16th century, “vagabond, wanderer”). Gadabout entered English in the 18th century.
