Nov. 2nd, 2012

stravage

Nov. 2nd, 2012 07:09 am
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stravage (struh-VAYG) - v., to wander, saunter, roam.


Chiefly used (if not chiefly done) in Scotland and North England. First recorded in 1773, created by shortening (in a way that suggests to me university slang) Medieval Latin extrāvagarī, to wander out of bounds, from extra-, outside, beyond + vagārī, to wander -- and the ancestor of extravagant.

---L.

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