Word: 'gadabout' • Extended Annotations
Word: 'gadabout' • Extended Annotations
1830, "one who gads or walks idly about, especially from motives of curiosity or gossip"
[Century Dictionary]
as an adjective, since 1817
previously, since ca. 1560s, as a verb/phrase gad about or gadder about “to go about from place to place, esp. aimlessly or idly”
A subtle transformation from “aimlessly or idly” to “for pleasure” or amusement.
| ~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
| ⚜ | classic definition |
| ☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |
