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Word of the Day: Galivant
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Pappy
Living the Dream
I ate some bad tacos the other night and did a lot of galavanting.
PS: not for pleasure..
PS: not for pleasure..
You were on the blower with the pope for an extended period.I ate some bad tacos the other night and did a lot of galavanting.
PS: not for pleasure..
Thank goodness long distance charges don't apply when using the big white telephone, Paps!
I know what you mean. I don't know why they dress that way--perhaps looking for attention or show off their assets?!
Pappy
Living the Dream
Yeah Marg...said a couple of Hail Marys..You were on the blower with the pope for an extended period.
Thank goodness long distance charges don't apply when using the big white telephone, Paps!
RubyK
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I haven't heard the word galavant for years. My mom used to say that word often.
Alice spent many days galavanting from shopping mall to shopping mall until the Pandemic spoiled her constant buying.
Alice spent many days galavanting from shopping mall to shopping mall until the Pandemic spoiled her constant buying.
Little trivia for all related to the spelling of gallivant.
Gallivant (spelled with two L's), to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan
Galavant (verb)
Taken from Merriam Webster:
Back in the 14th century, a young man of fashion (or a ladies' man) was called a gallant. By the late 1600s, gallant was being used as a verb to describe the process a paramour used to win a lady's heart; to gallant became a synonym of "to court." Etymologists think that the spelling of the verb gallant was altered to create gallivant, which originally meant "to act as a gallant" or "to go about usually ostentatiously or indiscreetly with members of the opposite sex." Nowadays, however, gallivant is more likely to describe wandering than romancing.
Gallivant (spelled with two L's), to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan
Galavant (verb)
Taken from Merriam Webster:
Back in the 14th century, a young man of fashion (or a ladies' man) was called a gallant. By the late 1600s, gallant was being used as a verb to describe the process a paramour used to win a lady's heart; to gallant became a synonym of "to court." Etymologists think that the spelling of the verb gallant was altered to create gallivant, which originally meant "to act as a gallant" or "to go about usually ostentatiously or indiscreetly with members of the opposite sex." Nowadays, however, gallivant is more likely to describe wandering than romancing.
Pappy
Living the Dream
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