jaunt

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  1. noun A short trip or excursion, usually for pleasure; an outing.
  2. intransitive verb To make a short journey.

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  • I noticed it before you ever went on that Scottish jaunt, and now these two encounters of yours with murdered men have triggered off something which has been dormant for months. —  Cold, Lone and Still - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 64
  • And don't forget the camera for this 195-mile West Michigan jaunt, which is best enjoyed from early to late October. —  Pure Michigan Travel
  • This jaunt was all centred around the World Minimal Music Festival at the —  mapsadaisical
  • I'da love to still smoke my way through this one, so many cigars and moping pseudo - Mexicans - trains, maybe the better part of this jaunt were the locos, taking me back to Jimmy J's The Little Engine That Could, always wanted to be that blue steamer. —  goldenfiddle
  • So often then must the author trudge to his leave-giver that those his new insertions may be viewed, and many a jaunt will be made ere that licenser--for it must be the same man--can either be found, or found at leisure; meanwhile either the press must stand still, which is no small damage, or the author lose his accuratest thoughts, and send forth the book worse than he made it, which to a diligent writer is the greatest melancholy and vexation that can befall Milton would have had no licensers. —  Obiter Dicta Second Series
 

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outing ·  foray ·  stroll ·  workweek ·  get-together ·  wandering ·  sojourn ·  cruise ·  excursion ·  swim ·  prowler ·  trip

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jaunt:   jaunts
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Sometimes spelled jant; history defective, the word being confused with other words of similar or related meanings; cf. jaunce, jounce, also jaunder, jander, jaunt, jump, etc., all prob. of Scandinavian origin. The relations of these forms are undetermined.
  2. from jaunt, v.
  3. Prob. of Scandinavian origin, namely from Swedish ganta, play the buffoon, romp, sport, jest (reflexive gantas, Danish gantes, jest), from Swedish dial, gant, a fool, buffoon (cf. gan, droll, Icelandic gan, frenzy, frantic gestures). Cf. jaunt.
  4. from Old French jante, also spelled gente, in plural jantes, the fellies of a wheel; origin obscure.
 

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