gallivant

You probably were. You'd better start apologizing now, and beat the rush.

You see I always assumed it did. Now I realise I could have been gallivanting all over the place, entirely oblivious.

I didn't realize that gallivanting required flapping of arms and heavy imbibing. ;-)

No! I'm home. I don't think I gallivanted there or back. I mean my arms stayed mostly by my sides and I didn't drink any more than usual.

Wait... yarb? Are you still in Peru? How did you get there, if you didn't gallivant?

I regret that my gallivanting days are mostly behind me. At least my vanting is less galli than it used to be.

My family gallivants all the time. It's one of our favorite words and activities. If we call my parents and no one answers, we say they're out gallivanting: out on some local expedition for fun.

I like to gallivant.

When I hear it used seriously nowadays, it's with a pejorative connotation--e.g. "We're here working our asses off, and you're out gallivanting around!"

But I do hear it occasionally. Whether people today are gallivanting in the true spirit of "gallivant," though, is open to debate.

Does seem a word from a bygone age. Do you think people still do much gallivanting?

A word of my childhood. If we were going out for the day, we'd be off gallivanting, or as my mum used to say "going there and back to see how far it is."