gadabout

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Etymology

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Deverbal from gad about.

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Noun

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gadabout (plural gadabouts)

  1. A person who restlessly moves from place to place, seeking amusement or the companionship of others.
    Synonym: social butterfly
    • 2021, Pedro Mairal, chapter 11, in The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
      I was among the last to board the ferry. ... Chilean tourists, Uruguayan doctors, old Argentine gadabouts of high-society heritage, ladies wearing strident perfumes, families, all of them in those same light blue sneakers, like Smurfs.

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