stravaig

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To "stravaig" is to walk about idly.

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  1. To stroll; wander; go about idly. [Scotch and Irish.] What did ye come here for? To go prancing down to the shore—and back from the shore and stravayging about the place? W. Black, In Far Lochaber, vii.

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  1. Also stravaige; properly *stravague, from Old French estravaguer = Old Italian stravagare, from Middle Latin extravagari, wander out or beyond: see extravagant. Cf. stravagant.
 

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