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Synonyms for gadabout
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : gad-uh-bout |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈgæd əˌbaʊt |
Définition of gadabout
Origin :- 1837, from earlier noun phrase gadder about (1560s); see gad (v.) + about (adv.).
- noun rambler
- I am not to be stopped on the king's service by every gadabout.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Not four years since I still had her under me at school, and she was already a gadabout.
- Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
- Fleming gadabout and monk feeder, thou shalt be hanged with them.
- Extract from : « The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Vol. II (of 2) » by Charles de Coster
- In the face of her husband's illness, Dolly could not prove a gadabout.
- Extract from : « Mortomley's Estate, Vol. I (of 3) » by Charlotte Elizabeth Lawson Cowan Riddell
- Yet why should I after all abuse the gadabout propensities of my countrymen?
- Extract from : « Tom Brown's School Days » by Thomas Hughes
- Yet why should I, after all, abuse the gadabout propensities of my countrymen?
- Extract from : « Tom Brown at Rugby » by Thomas Hughes
- Upon which Gadabout cried, “Then let us be off: it is quite time we should.”
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 » by Various
- Not a sign of the presence of the Gadabout was to be seen on the waters before them.
- Extract from : « The Go Ahead Boys on Smugglers' Island » by Ross Kay
- I told you both the Gadabout and the other skiff are around the point.
- Extract from : « The Go Ahead Boys on Smugglers' Island » by Ross Kay
- I can tell the toot of the Gadabout if Gabriel was blowing the whistle.
- Extract from : « The Go Ahead Boys on Smugglers' Island » by Ross Kay
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