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GADABOUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gadabout mean?
• GADABOUT (noun)
The noun GADABOUT has 1 sense:
1. a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship
Familiarity information: GADABOUT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A restless seeker after amusement or social companionship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("gadabout" is a kind of...):
quester; searcher; seeker (someone making a search or inquiry)
Context examples
“I am not to be stopped on the king's service by every gadabout.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I’ve no time to talk to every gadabout.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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"The low fig can be climbed by everyone." (Albanian proverb)
"Wherever there's cheese, work there." (Armenian proverb)
"Don't sell the fur before shooting the bear." (Danish proverb)