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单词 stravaig
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stravaigv.

Brit. /strəˈveɪɡ/, U.S. /strəˈveɪɡ/, Scottish English /straˈveɡ/, Irish English /sθrɑˈveːɡ/, /sθrəˈveːɡ/
Forms: Also stravague, stravag(e.
Etymology: ? Aphetic form of extravage v. (? for *extravague).
Chiefly Scottish, northern, and Irish English.
intransitive. To wander about aimlessly. Also in general literary use, and occasionally transitive with road as object.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > idly
roil?c1335
gada1500
stavera1500
vaguea1525
scoterlope1574
idle1599
haika1605
saunter1671
stravaig1801
palmer1805
streel1805
taver1808
traik1818
gander1822
gallivant1823
gilravage1825
project1828
daud1831
meander1831
to knock about1833
to kick about1839
to knock round1848
piroot1858
sashay1865
june1869
tootle1902
slop1907
beetle1919
stooge1941
swan1942
1801 J. Leyden in Complaynt Scotl. Gloss. 379 To vaig is in common use, as well as stravaig.
1825 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 381 The belts o' plantations are no very wide, nor the sherubberies stravagin awa into wild mountainous regions o'..breckans.
1831 S. Lover Legends & Stories Ireland p. xxiv Stravaig, to ramble.
1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North III. 293 Those heartless clouds that keep stravaigging over mountain-tops.
1871 W. Black Daughter of Heth II. vi. 85 ‘Nonsense!’ said Lady Drum. ‘Would you have an old woman like me stravaiging about the shore by myself?’
1876 C. M. Yonge Three Brides I. xvi. 279 Her own children, which it is a shame to see stravaging about the place!
1887 W. E. Henley Villon's Straight Tip 23 At any graft, no matter what, Your merry goblins soon stravag.
1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters 26 Where have you been stravaiging to?
1905 A. I. Shand Days of Past xiv. 275 Those stravaiging cottage cats.
1929 E. Bowen Last September i. viii. 93 They do be stravaging about always and not contented at all.
1934 T. E. Lawrence Let. 23 Nov. (1938) 830 Visit it, sometime, if you still stravage the roads of England in a great car.
1958 S. Beckett From Abandoned Work 14 I might be sprawling in the sun now sucking my pipe..wondering what there was for dinner, instead of stravaging the same old road in all weathers.

Derivatives

straˈvaiger n. /strəˈveɪɡə(r)/
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer
striker1393
roamerc1400
wandererc1440
whirlerc1440
gangrela1450
fluttererc1450
straggler1530
gadlinga1542
ranger1560
rover1568
fugitive1570
rangler1575
fleeter1581
extravagant1583
scatterling1590
vagranta1592
rambler1624
erratic1669
stravaiger1821
multivagant1895
1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xiii. 132 Lady Macadam's hens and fowls..being great stravaggers for their meat.
straˈvaiging n. and adj. /strəˈveɪɡɪŋ/
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering
wandering1362
roamingc1390
roving?1520
error1594
rangling1594
wanderment1597
rambling1622
rolling1624
vagancy1641
roverya1653
pervagation1656
oberration1658
vagrancya1677
stravaiging1825
scamander1873
outwandering1880
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering
wanderingc1000
erringa1340
waggeringa1382
vagant1382
vagabond1426
erroneousa1464
fugitive1481
wavering1487
vagrantc1522
gadding1545
roaming1566
roving1576
straggling1589
rambling?1609
wagand1614
wheelinga1616
gadling1616
vagring1619
erratical1620
vaguing1627
erratic1656
planetical1656
waif1724
vagrarious1795
stravaiging1825
vagarious1882
pirooting1958
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Stravaiging, strolling about.
1884 A. S. Swan Carlowrie x. 152 Miss Ritchie's peacock had taken what she called a stravagin' turn.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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