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Jaunt

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Noun, Verb (intransitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Jauntv. i. [Cf. Scot. jaunder to ramble, jaunt to taunt, jeer, dial. Sw. ganta to play the buffoon, romp, jest; perh. akin to E. jump. Cf. Jaunce.].
  •  To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To ride on a jaunting car.  [1913 Webster]
Jaunting car, a kind of low-set open vehicle, used in Ireland, in which the passengers ride sidewise, sitting back to back. [Written also jaunty car.] Thackeray.
Jauntv. t. 
     To jolt; to jounce.  Bale.  [1913 Webster]
Jauntn. 
  •  A wearisome journey.  [1913 Webster]
    "Our Savior, meek, and with untroubled mind
    After his aëry jaunt, though hurried sore.
    Hungry and cold, betook him to his rest.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Jaunt, n. & v.
--n. a short excursion for enjoyment.
--v.intr. take a jaunt.

Idiom
jaunting car a light two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle formerly used in Ireland.
Etymology
16th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

Jaunt

airing, amble, bat around, bum, campaign, circuit, constitutional, count ties, course, cruise, divagate, drift, excursion, expedition, fare, flit, forced march, gad, gad about, gallivant, globe-trot, go about, go abroad, go on safari, go overseas, go the rounds, grand tour, hike, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, journey, junket, knock about, knock around, make a journey, make a pilgrimage, make a trip, march, meander, mooch, mush, nomadize, outing, package tour, parade, peregrinate, peregrination, pererrate, peripatetic journey, peripateticism, pilgrim, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, progress, promenade, prowl, ramble, range, range the world, roam, round trip, roundabout, rove, rubberneck, rubberneck tour, run, run about, safari, sally, saunter, schlep, shoot, sight-see, stalk, straggle, stray, stretch, stroll, take a trip, take the road, tour, traipse, tramp, trek, trip, trudge, turn, vagabond, vagabondize, voyage, walk, walk the tracks, walking tour, wander, wayfare

ROGET THESAURUS

Jaunt

Journey

N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.


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