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• gallivant — 1809, probably a playful elaboration of GALLANT (Cf. gallant) in an obsolete verbal sense of play the gallant, flirt, gad about. Related: Gallivanted; gallivanting. Young Lobski said to his ugly wife, I m off till to morrow to fish, my life; Says …   Etymology dictionary

• wander — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. rove, ramble, stroll, walk, range; digress, swerve, deviate, stray; rave, maunder, be delirious; moon; straggle, forage. See travel, deviation, insanity, motion. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To stroll]… …   English dictionary for students

• wander — wander, stray, roam, ramble, rove, range, prowl, gad, gallivant, traipse, meander can mean to move about more or less aimlessly or without a plan from place to place or from point to point. Most of these verbs may imply walking, but most are not… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• knock — v 1. rap, tap, hit, thump, bang, drum, pound, hammer. 2. strike, smite, thwack, smack, cuff, buffet, punch, box, Scot. dunt, Inf. slug; slap, Inf. whack, Inf. clout, Inf. wallop, Inf. crown, Sl. conk, Sl. bop, Sl. belt, Sl. sock; beat, batter,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• ramble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. stroll, saunter, stray, rove, wander; digress, maunder. See travel, loquacity, deviation, diffuseness. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To saunter] Syn. stroll, pRomenade, roam, wander; see roam , walk 1 . 2 …   English dictionary for students

• drift — Synonyms and related words: Brownian movement, Zeitgeist, aberrancy, aberration, accumulation, advance, aeroplane, affective meaning, affluence, afflux, affluxion, aim, airlift, airplane, alluvion, alluvium, amble, angular motion, anthill, army,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• ramble — [n] aimless walk constitutional, excursion, hike, perambulation, peregrination, roaming, roving, saunter, stroll, tour, traipse, trip, turn; concepts 151,224 ramble [v1] wander about; travel aimlessly amble, bat around*, be all over the map*,… …   New thesaurus

• stray — [adj] abandoned, wandering devious, erratic, homeless, lost, roaming, roving, vagrant; concept 583 stray [v1] deviate, err circumlocute, depart, digress, divagate, diverge, do wrong, excurse, get off the subject*, get off the track*, get… …   New thesaurus

• divagate — Synonyms and related words: angle, angle off, bat around, be absent, bear off, bend, bias, branch off, bum, change the bearing, count ties, crook, curve, daydream, deflect, depart, depart from, detour, deviate, digress, divaricate, diverge, dream …   Moby Thesaurus

• hit the road — Synonyms and related words: bat around, be off, beat it, begone, bum, clear out, count ties, divagate, drift, flake off, flit, gad, gad about, gallivant, get, get going, get lost, get out, git, go about, go the rounds, hit the trail, hobo, jaunt …   Moby Thesaurus

• ramble — Synonyms and related words: Wanderjahr, afoot and lighthearted, airing, amble, babble, bat around, be insane, blab, blabber, blather, blether, bum, bumming, chat, chatter, clack, clatter, constitutional, count ties, depart, deviate, digress,… …   Moby Thesaurus