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How to pronounce gadabout in English?

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Type Words
Type of quester, searcher, seeker

Examples of gadabout

gadabout
He's been so secretive he makes Thomas Pynchon seem like a gadabout.
From the nytimes.com
Tim Carroll has mustered the gaudy gadabout spirit of the Globe and popped it into the Apollo.
From the guardian.co.uk
As we now know, and have known for a good while, he's not a wrinkled old gadabout in a busted top hat.
From the guardian.co.uk
Polls showed viewers most remembered Eastwood's gadabout.
From the latimes.com
Thomas Mars sings like a stylish Gallic gadabout content to chase doomed flings from club to cafe and back again.
From the washingtonpost.com
Consequently, Fellini's interpretation goes against the traditional notion of Casanova as an enlightened gadabout.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A good shopping and gadabout day.
From the kansas.com
Many observers shrug off the outbreak of vanaticism as merely an acute fling of the gadabout restlessness always evident in America.
From the time.com
On signing a contract, the ogre exchanges a day from his past for one in which he can revert to being a scary, unregenerate, child-free gadabout.
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • A restless seeker after amusement or social companionship
  • The Gadabout was an unusual American automobile manufactured in Newark, New Jersey from 1913 until 1915. A four-cylinder cyclecar, it had a body woven from so-called "waterproof reeds"; Wise describes it as "looking like a mobile wastepaper basket".
  • Someone who moves around from one activity to another.