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To gallivant is to go from place to place having fun, with no serious plan. People often say it with a half-smile, as if you should have been working, studying, or staying home. “While we sat exams, she was gallivanting around Europe.” It is not a kind word for travel, and not a hard insult either — more teasing than cruel, a little old-fashioned, mostly spoken or informal writing. It started from gallant, in an old sense of flirting and running after women, then to roaming about for pleasure.
趴趴走、到處玩樂（帶調侃、不以為然，不是中性的「去旅行」）
組成From 1809, from gallant in the old sense “to flirt / to woo,” then broadened to “roaming about with no plan.”
同家族的字
- gallantthe verb grew from gallant in that older flirting sense
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gallivantverb/ˈɡæl.ɪ.vænt/
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To roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.
- Bertram, it is true, when he heard of the plan, rebelled, and asserted that what Billy needed was a rest, an entire rest from care and labor. In fact, what he wanted her to do, he said, was to gallivant – to gallivant all day long.
- Rather than sit and gawk at my nonadoring mother and sister, I gallivanted outdoors until it was time to hit the sack.
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obsoleteTo flirt, to romance.
- 'That you never go gallivanting with Chloe again. You both "don't mean anything", but suppose you did happen to get the girl discharged with a very dubious character? Should you see any alternative to behaving either as a fool or a knave to put it right?'
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。