Gallivant

Definition: Gallivant

Gallivant

Verb

1. Wander aimlessly in search of pleasure.

Note: Gallivant \Gal"li*vant\, intransitive verb. [From Gallant.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Gallivant

Synonyms: gad (v), jazz around (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Endearment	Bill and coo, spoon, toy, dally, flirt, coquet; gallivant, galavant; philander; make love; pay one's court to, pay one's addresses to, pay one's attentions to; serenade; court, woo; set one's cap at; be sweet upon, look sweet upon; ogle, cast sheep's eyes upon; faire les yeux doux.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Gallivant (1997)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Gallivant" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Gallivant" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	50%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	50%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

Expression using "gallivant": gallivant around. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "gallivant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vij rrotull (circle, compass, court, fly around, make love, mill, prowl, putter, spark, woo), bredh (divagate, fir, fir tree, loiter, ramble, roam, Spruce, wander). (various references)

Arabic		‏تسكع طلبا للمتعة, ‏تجول (get about, knock about, move, peddle, ramble, stroll, swag, tour, wander, wandering), ‏رافق الجنس الآخر. (various references)

Bulgarian		флиртувам (dally, flirt, gallant, mash, philander, toy, vamp), шляя се (dally, dawdle, fool about, fool around, hang about, hang around, idle, loaf, lollop, meander, mess about, mess around, mooch, moon about, mosey, saunter, screw around, swan around, vagabond). (various references)

Czech		toulat se (divagate, gad about, meander, ramble, roam). (various references)

French		se promener, accompagner les femmes. (various references)

German		sich amüsieren (enjoy oneself, have a good time, have fun, make fun, to amuse oneself), bummeln (dally, dawdle, dilly dally, goof, hang around, idle, idle about, idle around, loiter, poke about, poke around, roam, saunter, slack, stroll, take it easy, to stroll, wander). (various references)

Greek		αργοσχολώσ, διασκεδάζω (amuse, beguile, disport, enjoy, entertain, frolic, have fun, I enjoy myself, jollify, junket, recreate, revel, skylark, sport). (various references)

Hebrew		לשוטט (hang about, loiter, meander, mooch, perambulate, prowl, range, roam, rove, straggle, traipse, wander). (various references)

Hungarian		flörtöl (flirt, philander, to coquet, to dally, to flirt, to philander), csavarog (bum, bump around, loiter, mooch, muck about, to be on the loose, to be on the tramp, to gad, to hobo, to maunder, to muck about, to prowl, to stroll, to trapes, to trollop about, vagabondize), állandóan a nõk körül legyeskedik. (various references)

Italian		bighellonare (dawdle, loaf, loiter, lounge, lounge about, Mike, moon about, saunter), andare in giro (get around, rove). (various references)

Manx		cartaghey mygeayrt. (various references)

Pig Latin		allivantgay.(various references)

Portuguese		gálio (gallium), andar atrás de mulheres (gadabout). (various references)

Romanian		umbla dupã plãceri trecãtoare, cocheta (coquette). (various references)

Russian		ухаживать (attend, court, keep company, make love, nurse, philander, woo), слоняться (dangle around, hover about, loaf, lop about, lounge, mooch, mosey, muck about, putter about). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vucarati se (roam, wander). (various references)

Spanish		callejear (gaby, pound the asphalt, stroll around), callejeado. (various references)

Swedish		driva omkring (drift, gad about, gad around, hang about, hang around, loiter). (various references)

Turkish		gezip tozmak (saunter about, walk out with), gününü gün etmek (live it up, racket, racket about), hovardalık etmek, eğlence peşinde koşmak (gad, gad about). (various references)

Ukranian		фліртувати (flirt, play around), швендяти (moon, slouch about, slouch along, slouch around), залицятися (court, gallant, philander, squire, sweetheart, wait upon, woo). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "gallivant": gallivanted, gallivanting, gallivants. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Gallivant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: galavant, galevant, galiant, galivan, galivant, galivante, gallavant, Gallegan, gallevant, galliant, gallican, Galligan, gallivante, galvant. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "gallivant" (pronounced 'Gal"li*vant'): Avant, Ci-devant, Irrelavant, Ovant, relevant, savant, Vant, Vivant. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-l-l-n-t-v"
	-1 letter: galivant.
	-2 letters: gallant, lanital, vaginal, valiant, vanilla.
	-3 letters: agnail, gavial, laving, vagina.
	-4 letters: again, alang, alant, algal, algin, align, anvil, avail, avant, avian, giant, glial, glint, lagan, lanai, liana, liang, ligan, linga, natal, naval, nival, taiga, vagal, villa, vinal, vital.
	-5 letters: agin, alan, alga, alit, anal, anga, anil, anta, anti, gain, gait, gala, gall, gill, gilt, glia, gnat, lain, lang, lati, lava, lilt, ling, lint, nail, nill, tail, tain, tala, tali, tall, tang, till, ting, vagi, vail, vain, vang, vial, viga, vill, vina, vita.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-l-l-n-t-v"
	+1 letter: gallivants.
	+2 letters: alleviating, gallivanted, vacillating.
	+3 letters: gallivanting.
	+4 letters: vacillatingly.
	+5 letters: navigationally.
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