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prettygoodwordstravage (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.
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.
