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

Example sentences :

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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