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Wuthering Heights vocabulary
15 archaic vocabulary words
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gad-about
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synonyms: bon vivant, jolly dog ???
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Definition:someone who constantly flits about looking for comaraderie; a social butterfly(often used as a verb)
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"Don't you know your duty? No! . . . you must be taught, you've not been taught so far! Your mamma was a gad-about, and you . . . you can blubber. Yes! blubber away. . . ."
Anton Chekhov. Love and Other Stories
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I intended to convey that our charming host and hostess were superior to the follies of fashion, and preferred leading a simple and wholesome life to gadding about to twopenny-halfpenny tea-drinking afternoons, and living above their incomes.”
George and Weedon Grossmith. The Diary of a Nobody (1882)
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