Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of gallivant.
Examples
“What none of that changes is the fact that Villaraigosa is precisely the kind of telegenic useless Democrat who can get David Hasselhoff and Natalie Cole to play his mayoral inauguration and who then spends his term gallivanting around the world building recognition and support for his causes without having any causes beyond promoting himself.”
“Serendipity: I was sitting on a bench, reading the aforementioned Scott Pilgrim, when I came across the word gallivanting, and paused to reflect on the fact that it was spelled differently than I thought it was.”
“Tim Fisher objected at first to the idea of gallivanting off on a protracted honeymoon, leaving”
“The "Real Housewives" franchise, that juggernaut of gossip, gluttony and Botox, incorporates fashion as a kind of gallivanting character -- a constantly striving, ostentatious, insecure troublemaker who believes there's no such thing as too much cleavage.”
The Washington Post: Fashion takes a leading role in 'The Real Housewives' franchise
“The CNN gasbag -- hey, I think the world of Lou because he's built like it -- has also tut-tutted on his radio outfall lately that President Obama is "gallivanting" around the country, trying to sell his "crazy" health-care plan.”
Bill Mann: CNN's Lou Dobbs Joins Glenn Beck's Tinfoil-Hat Brigade
“Surely she was not doing any "gallivanting" now, she told herself sometimes, a little aggrievedly.”
“gallivanting" with Julia and Edith, the house maids, you would have regarded him as in a frame of mind truly enviable; for there are certain forms of earthly happiness just as contagious as whooping cough or measles.”
The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war,
“Do you think that could be considered 'gallivanting'? ”
“So, from then, I opted for the vague familiarity of Madrid as my husband continued to pursue his gallivanting lifestyle — a phase that I assured myself would soon be purged from our lives as the birth of our child became increasingly imminent.”
“According to the NY Post, the ex-NY Giants star was slapped with divorce papers following his public gallivanting with 23-year-old former NBC intern Traci Lynn Johnson.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gallivanting’.
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britishisms
A tip of my hat to the snarkiest of English dialects. Here here!
Ponce, snog, bloody, barmy, blasted, blooming, bleeding, knackered, poppycock, wanker, tosser, cracked and 52 more...
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generationnext's Words
petulant, vehement, pensive, lascivious, vacillate, histrionic, satiated, svelte, lithe, zeitgeist, viscous, sommelier and 526 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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edes's Words
table talk, tuneful, bestrewn, determinate fashion, unpretending, personage, duly impressed, shirring, caw, hatchet job, gummy, comely and 225 more...
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Brit-ISH
yay british!
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Zorba
ectoplasm, incorporeal, balderdash, raucous, trenchant, furrowed, half-baked, riveted, voracious, tassel, lignite, diaphonous and 46 more...
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childhood
A list of words which: I don't normally use now, but I used to as a kid; words that I used to hear in school;
also, words I used to hear my parents say :)guzzle, chuck, bolster, meander, gallivanting, groovy, rad, prevaricate, dude, gobble, gallivant, harvest and 16 more...
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Favorite Words
Words I like :)
capricious, arbitrary, obnoxious, chutzpah, concoction, eccentric, overzealous, juxtaposition, altercation, volition, sabbatical, debacle and 37 more...
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In the family
Words that members of my family like using, some of them madeupical.
moose, fricasseed, darus, frazzle, gallivanting, exhausticated, skedaddle, skibbledy-hop, heffalump, narnia, couthless, tinaminamiasis and 36 more...
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moritherapy's Words
flummoxed, struwwelpeter, fandango, anvil, bubbalicious, calamitous, devilish, enervating, frumpy, gallivanting, hurumph, insipid and 12 more...
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bytheway going from place to place for pleasure, not a purposful journey, more just for fun.
I've seen it describes as old fashioned, but I'd use it to be funny and silly
e.g.
Gallivanting around the campus is just not on my to-do-list today Jun 10, 2009