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noun
An act of strolling or wandering aimlessly; a ramble, a stroll, a wander.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland
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Synonyms: saunter
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To stroll or wander aimlessly on (a road, etc.); to ramble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To stroll or wander; to ramble, to roam.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, intransitive
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Synonyms: amble, gallivant, saunter
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Of a river, road, etc.: to meander, to wind.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, figuratively, intransitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Possibly borrowed from Scots stravaig (“(verb) to wander idly, roam; to traverse; (noun) roaming about; casual ramble, stroll”), probably an aphetic form of English extravage (“(obsolete, rare) to go beyond the scope of something, digress; to talk wildly, ramble”), influenced by Scots vaig (“to wander idly, roam”). Extravage is a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin extrāvagārī (“to stray outside limits, wander”) (whence extravagate), from Latin extrā (“beyond, outside of”, preposition) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h1éǵhs (“out”)) + vagārī (the present active infinitive of vagor (“to ramble, roam, stroll about, wander”), from vagus (“rambling, roaming, strolling, wandering”) (further etymology uncertain) + -or (the first-person singular present passive indicative of -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs))).
