stravage

American  

[struh-veyg] / strəˈveɪg /

Or stravaig

verb (used without object)

stravaged, stravaging

1. Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.

2. to saunter; stroll.

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Other Word Forms

• stravager
  noun
• stravaiger
  noun

Etymology

Origin of stravage

First recorded in 1800–05; by shortening of Medieval Latin extrāvagarī “to wander out of bounds”; see extravagant, extravagate

Example Sentences

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stravaged stravaging

I was living in Gray's Inn in those days, and we stravaged up Gray's Inn Road on one of those queer, unscientific explorations of the odd corners of London in which I have always delighted.

From The House of Souls by Machen, Arthur

"I'm thinking it's as near it as stravaging aboot the Border mosses, when ye might gang by train."

From Carmen's Messenger by Bindloss, Harold

It looks fishy, stravaging all over the landscape after dark with a cavalier beside your litter all night long.

From The Unwilling Vestal by White, Edward Lucas

I will not permit my daughters to go stravaging round the world with any strange woman.

From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Then, with me ever calling them up, they'll be dancing and stravaging about till doomsday.'

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth