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单词 gadabout
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gadaboutadj.n.

Brit. /ˈɡadəbaʊt/, U.S. /ˈɡædəˌbaʊt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gad v.1, about adv.
Etymology: < gad v.1 + about adv., after to gad about at gad v.1 Phrasal verbs. With use as noun compare earlier gadder-about n. at gadder n.1 Compounds.Compare the following example of an earlier use as the name of a character in a play:1741 D. Garrick Lying Valet Dramatis Personæ Mrs Gadabout.
A. adj.
Given to gadding about; that goes to many social events or travels to many places for pleasure; characterized by such behaviour. Formerly also: †that goes about gossiping (obsolete). Cf. to gad about at gad v.1 Phrasal verbs.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > inclined to or characterized by wandering
wancraunt1422
roving1566
runabout1573
wandering1582
vagrant1583
gaddy1637
outward-bound1743
gadabout1753
free-ranging1841
planeticose1849
knockabout1886
picaresque1959
1753 ‘H. Humdrum’ Mother Midnight's Comical Pocket-bk. 39 I laugh'd to see the old trunk-maker knit his brows and tell her he got but very little by such inquisitive gad-about customers.
1817 W. Scott Let. 23 Mar. (1933) IV. 420 The frivolous..gad-about manners of many of our modern belles.
1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude iii. 29 Foolish gad-about, dinner-eating, dancing people.
1935 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Apr. 229/1 Far from contented with her husband's gad-about life.
2017 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 26 Aug. 27 [They] spend the remains of the summer with their aunt and uncle while their gadabout widowed mother takes off to Morocco.
B. n.
A person who gads about, going to many social events or travelling to many places for pleasure. Formerly also: †a gossip, a busybody (obsolete). Cf. to gad about at gad v.1 Phrasal verbs.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] > tale-bearer
rounderOE
blabc1374
tale-teller1377
clatterer1388
tittlerc1400
talebearer1478
whisterer1519
whisperer1547
telltale1548
tattler1549
clatterfart1552
tale-carrier1552
babbler?1555
gossip1566
gossiper1568
carry-tale1577
mumble-news1598
twitter1598
buzzer1604
blob-talea1670
gadabout1757
tell-pie1771
circulator1792
clype1825
windjammer1880
tattle-tale1889
panta1908
clatfarta1930
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wandering idly > one who
roilera1450
vaguer15..
gadder?1548
street-gadder1574
gadfly1605
gallopera1693
rouseabout1746
gadabout1757
gadabroad1810
meanderer1887
1757 J. Hackett tr. Epit. in Select & Remarkable Epit. I. 29 A Woman good and fair; industrious, pious, modest, frugal, chaste, and no Gadabout [L. domiseda].
1837 J. F. Palmer Gloss. in M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. Gad-a-bout, a gossiping rambling sort of person.
1859 S. Smiles Self-help (1860) iii. 66 He even ran some risk of becoming a gadabout and busy-body.
1883 Harper's Mag. July 295/1 It is incapacity in this direction which makes gadabouts of some women.
1940 V. Bell Sel. Lett. (1993) 468 Angelica is a gad-about and off on a jaunt at the moment.
2010 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 May 30/1 J.D. Salinger's passion for privacy was extreme enough to make other American recluses seem frivolous gadabouts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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