| 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. |