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perhaps you've not been able to find it because the normal spelling is gallivanting - joe (speeling 'R us) friday ' edit(1) - eta, if you had the 2nd sense of dictionary.com in mind, you got some 'splaining to do. oy. sorry for my egregious spelling, I was totally not thinking. and, yes, while I was thinking def. 1, there was however, also 2., though she is my wife. 
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Galavanting? That sounds interesting. I'll treat it like a hogwash word: hum.. Being a maestro performer in a series of great benefit concerts. close, actually! though I wasn't the maestro, and it wasn't really a benefit concert.
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>oy. sorry for my egregious spelling, I was totally not thinking.
actually, the same source gives galavanting as a variant (although my spiel-checker barfs on it) - I'm guessing it's regional in nature.
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I know it is the time of choirs and singing and we all know you sing well.
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Galavanting? That sounds interesting. I'll treat it like a hogwash word: hum.. Being a maestro performer in a series of great benefit concerts. love your daffynition Bran...... this is word from my childhood too. usually used as accusation from parents when us kids hadn't done something as in we were otherwise occupied, 'gallivanting around the countryside'
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If you grew up with that word could you please tell me what it means? Galavanting: running around like a chicken who's lost its head. Getting nowhere quickly. Running around without a care in the world.
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....and yes, I am aware of the other spelling.
But I learned it as galavanting and am keeping
the spelling that way.
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the extra 'L' ...could it be periphrasis?
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and how would you explain the 'a' vs. 'i' then?!
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hmmmm well, down here 'a' and 'i's are always getting mixed up in the speech between Kiwi's and Aussies....I just didn't notice it. I say 'pin' and Aussies think I'm saying 'pen' 
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A. does not fancy any of them. Was inclined to go with E but what use is defining the first stone in a pile? Weeding out more, is not "young egg" another pleonasm? Wood stoves do not need seals and a well-known burglar would not be successful long enough to become an eponym. A peat moor channel is useful for - navigation? Are there any urban Mongolian tribefolk? Wincing and going with C.  A) if you don't have a first stone you're not going to have a pile. 2) A young egg is the egg in a state of development prior to the formation of the shell. Anyone who has killed and gutted a chicken is familiar with the eggs in this state. The assembly line looks a little like a brussels sprout bush. Þ) If there isn't a seal around the edge of the door you're not going to be able to control the air coming into the stove and it will burn too hot and too quickly. On our stove the seal is a braided cord and it is attached to the edge of the door with some goop.
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and iv) the story of Johnny Yegg
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Where I grew up a "yegg" was a safecracker. Plain and simple.
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A. does not fancy any of them. Was inclined to go with E but what use is defining the first stone in a pile? Weeding out more, is not "young egg" another pleonasm? Wood stoves do not need seals and a well-known burglar would not be successful long enough to become an eponym. A peat moor channel is useful for - navigation? Are there any urban Mongolian tribefolk? Wincing and going with C. A) if you don't have a first stone you're not going to have a pile. 2) A young egg is the egg in a state of development prior to the formation of the shell. Anyone who has killed and gutted a chicken is familiar with the eggs in this state. The assembly line looks a little like a brussels sprout bush. Þ) If there isn't a seal around the edge of the door you're not going to be able to control the air coming into the stove and it will burn too hot and too quickly. On our stove the seal is a braided cord and it is attached to the edge of the door with some goop. Also you get 'old eggs'. When collecting fresh eggs from chicken nest, we had to date them, so we knew which were the young ones and which were older. The older ones sometimes went 'bad' before we used them.
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Where I grew up a "yegg" was a safecracker. Plain and simple. .....now you have me singing Cole Porter's: It's De-lovely......but like Robbie Williams version 
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I never said a yegg wasn't a safe-cracker, just that that is a later slang definition of the original meaning of yegg.
Also tsuwm if you read the definition it does say that yegg may have come from the surname of an itinerant burglar but it unknown whether the word or the burglar came first.
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on a related note, did the external link to the NYT article on Johnny Yegg work for y'all? I had some problems with it my own self, although it did work once. (PDF file)
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on a related note, did the external link to the NYT article on Johnny Yegg work for y'all? I had some problems with it my own self, although it did work once. (PDF file) works fine for me!
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Yes it did, but there is an interestinger article there called "My last play". It could be posturing, or it could be tragic. Can't imagine giving away all your books like that. I wonder how he'll feel in the end when they are all gone - disembowelled or unburdened?
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Yes it did, but there is an interestinger article there called "My last play". It could be posturing, or it could be tragic. Can't imagine giving away all your books like that. I wonder how he'll feel in the end when they are all gone - disembowelled or unburdened? that is interesting!
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A. does not fancy any of them. Was inclined to go with E but what use is defining the first stone in a pile? Weeding out more, is not "young egg" another pleonasm? Wood stoves do not need seals and a well-known burglar would not be successful long enough to become an eponym. A peat moor channel is useful for - navigation? Are there any urban Mongolian tribefolk? Wincing and going with C. Just revisit this post Aramis, because I wanted to say hello to you before saying goodbye. Nice to see you pay a visit to the hog even though you did not fancy any of them defs.  Bye!
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... a well-known burglar would not be successful long enough to become an eponym. He only need be well-known in the burglar community. His name would become an eponym for them and only later seep out into the greater, law-abiding community.
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works for me too...and I went off reading too, as did Avy. (interesting aritcle about WikiLeaks)
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A. does not fancy any of them. Was inclined to go with E but what use is defining the first stone in a pile? Weeding out more, is not "young egg" another pleonasm? Wood stoves do not need seals and a well-known burglar would not be successful long enough to become an eponym. A peat moor channel is useful for - navigation? Are there any urban Mongolian tribefolk? Wincing and going with C. Nice to see you pay a visit to the hog even though you did not fancy any of them defs. but......mine was the choosen one C
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My choice was between yours and the yak milk one. For the most fancyfull of them.
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It was a fun round......lots of lively discussion.
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My choice was between yours and the yak milk one. For the most fancyfull of them. Thanks, Bran, the yak milk intrigued me too, especially with the root mixture. (Eggnog and nutmeg).
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Just revisit this post Aramis, because I wanted to say hello to you before saying goodbye. Nice to see you pay a visit to the hog even though you did not fancy any of them defs. Bye! Opnieuw het weggaan Bran? 
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