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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1204/
- Published: 2023-05-17T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-03-18T21:07:53.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

The word for today is…

gallivant (verb):

1 *informal* : to travel, roam, or move about for pleasure  
2 *dated, informal* : to go about usually ostentatiously or indiscreetly with members of the opposite sex

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gallivant?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Back in the 14th century, gallant, a noun borrowed from the French word galant, referred to a fashionable young man. By the middle of the next century, it was being used more specifically to refer to such a man who was attentive to, and had a fondness for, the company of women. In the late 17th century, this “ladies’ man” sense gave rise to the verb gallant to describe the process a suitor used to win a lady’s heart, and “gallanting” became synonymous with “courting.” It’s this verb gallant that is the likely source of gallivant, which originally meant “to act as a gallant” or “to go about usually ostentatiously or indiscreetly with members of the opposite sex.” Today, however, gallivant is more likely to describe pleasurable wandering than romancing.

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