“gadabout”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

gadabout

释义

gadabout, a. and n.|ˈgædəbaʊt|
[f. gad v.² + about.]
A. adj. Given to gadding or roving, wandering.
1817Scott Let. to Mrs. Clephane 23 Mar. in Lockhart, The frivolous..gad-about manners of many of our modern belles.1851Helps Comp. Solit. iii. (1874) 25 Foolish gad⁓about, dinner-eating, dancing people.1857Hughes Tom Brown i. i, The gadabout propensities of my countrymen.
B. n. One who gads about, esp. from motives of curiosity or gossip.
1837Palmer Devonsh. Dialogue Gloss., Gad-a-bout, a gossiping rambling sort of person.1849Lytton Caxtons 140 Your shrew-mice are sad gad-abouts.1859Smiles Self-Help iii. (1860) 66 He even ran some risk of becoming a gadabout and busy-body.1883Harper's Mag. July 295/1 It is incapacity in this direction which makes gad⁓abouts of some women.

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