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Impertinence shown by terrible old ruler - time to run around
Answer for the clue "Impertinence shown by terrible old ruler - time to run around ", 9 letters:
gallivant
Alternative clues for the word gallivant
- Seek pleasure, having good time ensnaring completely terrible ruler
- Go out to have fun in good place to live, returning with foreign tan
- Travel widely to get G&T containing exotic vanilla
- Gad about, dashing round eastern half of Kyiv
- Travel from German holiday home, going North with six-footer
- Go in search of fun
Word definitions for gallivant in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"gad about, spend time in frivolous pleasure-seeking, especially with the opposite sex," 1809, of uncertain origin, perhaps a playful elaboration of gallant in an obsolete verbal sense of "play the gallant, flirt, gad about." Related: Gallivanted ; gallivanting ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gallivant is the first feature-length movie by Andrew Kötting . Released in 1996, it was a "highly idiosyncratic" documentary. It recorded a journey the director took clockwise around the coast of Britain accompanied by his 85-year-old grandmother, Gladys, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive English) To roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gallivant \Gal"li*vant\, v. i. [From Gallant .] To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan. [Slang] --Dickens.
Usage examples of gallivant.
Inwardly he was scolding himself fiercely, even as Wexler and Shelby gallivanted in the surf.
Odclay the jester would gather the names up, gallivanting and japing as he did so, and then the king with great ceremony read each of the names accompanied by much cheering.