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# The BFD Word of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-20/
- Published: 2020-02-19T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-02-11T20:19:21.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

The word for today is…

gallivant (verb) – 1\. To roam about in search of pleasure or amusement.  
2\. To play around amorously; flirt.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/gallivant?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Back in the 14th century, gallant, a noun borrowed from the French galant, denoted a young man of fashion. By the middle of the next century, it was being used more specifically to refer to such a man who was attentive to, and who had a fondness for the company of, women. In the late 1600s, this “ladies’ man” sense gave rise to the verb gallant to describe the process a paramour used to win a lady’s heart, and “to gallant” became synonymous with “to court.” Etymologists think that the spelling of the verb gallant was altered to create gallivant, which originally meant “to act as a gallant” or “to go about usually ostentatiously or indiscreetly with members of the opposite sex.” Nowadays, however, gallivant is more likely to describe wandering than romancing.

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