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Definition: Gadabout |
GadaboutNoun1. A restless seeker after amusement or social companionship. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gadabout" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1777. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Traveler | Tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly; globegirdler, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman; trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sir Gadabout (2002) | |
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Books | |
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Expression using "gadabout": be a gadabout. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gadabout | 35 |
gadabout salon | 10 |
gadabout tour | 8 |
gadabout tucson | 5 |
gadabout gaddis | 4 |
gadabout salon tucson | 4 |
gadabout spa | 2 |
gadabout travel | 2 |
chair gadabout | 2 |
gadabout salon spa | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gadabout"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | endacak (bum, errant, gadder, gipsy, goer, gypsy, hobo, landloper, nomad, prowler, Ranger, rangy, rover, runabout, runagate, sansculotte, staggerer, stroller, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering), bredharak (errant, gadder, roamer, wander). (various references) | |
Arabic | متسكع (gadder, idler, loafer, loiterer, lounger, rambler, wanderer), متجول (busk, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, tinker, traveling, travelling, wandering), باحث على المتعة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скитало, безделник (black sheep, bum, cornerman, dangler, dead beat, deadbeat, do nothing, fiddler, fribble, good for nothing, hobo, lay about, loafer, loiterer, loon, lounger, spalpeen, spiv, tramp, twiddler, vagabond, wastrel). (various references) | |
Czech | tulák (beachcomber, dosser, drifter, hobo, itinerant, landloper, landraker, prowler, rambler, Ranger, rogue, rover, stroller, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wayfarer). (various references) | |
Farsi | سرگردان (Adrift, Astray, Discursive, Erratic, Rambler, Strafe, Straggle, Stray, Wanderer), اواره (Adrift, Immigrant, Straggle, Tramp, Wanderer), ادم ولگرد (Beachcomber), دربدر (Outcast, Vagabond, Vagrant). (various references) | |
French | vadrouilleur. (various references) | |
Hebrew | משוטט (globetrotter, hiker, prowler, rambler, rambling, stroller, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), יצאן, פרס ית, "ולך רכיל (gossipmonger, malinger), פק" (prostitute). (various references) | |
Hungarian | naplopó (faineant, gadder, hake, idler, layabout, lounger, skiver, slacker, slouch, slug, yob), csavargó (beat, bum, corner-man, hobo, hoodlum, jockey, knockabout, landloper, landlouper, layabout, loiterer, lowlife, outcast, prowler, ranger, roamer, rogue, rover, runabout, runagate, to go for a tramp, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer). (various references) | |
Indonesian | petualang (adventurer, vagabond, voyager, wanderer), pengembara (carpetbagger, errant, nomad, ramble, vagabond, vagrant, voyager, wanderer). (various references) | |
Italian | vagabondo (hobo, Idler, loafer, rambler, rolling stone, rover, scouring, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 出好き . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | でずき. (various references) | |
Manx | cartage (botfly, maze, vagrant, warblefly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adaboutgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vagabundo (bum, cornerman, downcast, gad-fly, hobo, landlord, landlubber, Lea, maverick, planetoid, prowler, rambling, Ranger, rover, rowdy, runabout, stroller, strolling, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, waif, wanderer, wandering, wastrel, Woodward), andar atrás de mulheres (gallivant). (various references) | |
Romanian | vagabond (bum, gypsy, hobo, landloper, mudlark, range, rogue, rover, runabout, scalawag, stray, tramp, vagabond, vagrant), pierde-varã (dangler, do nothing, fribble, Idler, loafer, loiterer, lounger, ne'er do well, slacker, waster), hoinar (dilly dally, rambler, rambling, rover, roving, saunterer, strolling, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering), haidamac (tramp). (various references) | |
Russian | бродяга (bum, derelict, dosser, drifter, drummer, gadder, hobo, landloper, landlouper, maverick, nomad, prowler, rambler, rogue, runabout, runagate, stroller, sundowner, tramp, tramper, vagabond, vagrant). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tumaralo (bum, prowler, runabout), danguba (dangler, dawdler). (various references) | |
Spanish | pindonga (trollop), callejero (a-z, city map, map of the city, mongrel, Street, townplan), azotacalles (loafer), andador (baby-walker, fast-walking, messenger, summoner, walker, walking frame, well-paced). (various references) | |
Swedish | vara ute och roa sig mycket (be a gadabout). (various references) | |
Thai | คนชอบเที่ยวหาความสำราญอย่างไร้จุ"หมาย. (various references) | |
Turkish | gezenti, serseri (adrift, beat, bum, bummer, dawdler, dosser, down and out, drifter, errant, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, good for nothing, hobo, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, larrikin, layabout, lowlife, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, never-do-well, no good, outcast, punk, rambler, rascal, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rounder, rover, runagate, stray, strayed, sundowner, swag man, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, varmint, wandering, yob), hovarda (chaser, dissolute, gay, libertine, licentious, masher, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, rascal, riotous, rip, spark, sybarite, vagabond, wild), başıboş tip (rambling). (various references) | |
Ukranian | що вешта"ться без діла, гультяйка, ледащо (dawdle, dawdler, fribble, layabout, lazybones, ne'er do well, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, slacker, slob, truant), бродяга (abraham-man, bush-whacker, drummer, hobo, loafer, needy, nomad, prowler, rambler, runabout, runagate, stroller, tourist, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, waif). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gadabout": gadabouts. (additional references) | |
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"Gadabout" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Badarou, Goudebour. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-g-o-t-u" | |
-2 letters: dagoba. | |
-3 letters: about, doubt. | |
-4 letters: abut, auto, baud, boat, bota, bout, dago, data, dato, daub, daut, doat, gaud, goad, goat, gout, tabu, toad, toga, tuba. | |
-5 letters: aba, abo, ado, aga, ago, baa, bad, bag, bat, boa, bod, bog, bot, bud, bug, but, dab, dag, dog, dot, dub, dug, duo, gab, gad, gat, goa, gob, god, got, gut, oat, oud, out, tab, tad, tag, tao, tau, tod, tog, tub, tug, udo, uta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-g-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: gadabouts. | |
+4 letters: outbargained. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 64 61 62 6F 75 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- -.. .- -... --- ..- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01100100 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a d a b o u t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0064 0061 0062 006F 0075 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4167706768818786 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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