Etymology Journal · G
Galavanting all over creation
Meaning
- To spend time traveling or moving around with no clear destination or productive purpose. It usually implies that the person should be at home or at work instead.
Judgmental, motherly
Used in a sentence
- She has been galavanting all over creation instead of doing her chores.
- Stop galavanting all over creation and come help me with the yard work.
- He has been galavanting all over creation looking for that rare car part.
The backstory
Galavanting comes from the older word gallivant, which means to flirt or wander. All over creation adds a hyperbolic flair to the distance traveled.
Heard in
The South, Midwest
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