Meaning of stravaig | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To stroll or wander aimlessly on (a road, etc.); to ramble.
   Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, transitive
2. To stroll or wander; to ramble, to roam.
   Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, intransitive
3. Of a river, road, etc.: to meander, to wind.
   Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, figuratively, intransitive

Examples

“[I]n them days, you see the people used to be hanged outside o' the town, […] [I]n them days they did not attind to the comforts o' the people at all, but put them into a cart, all as one as a conthrairy pig goin' to the market, and stravaiged them through the town to the gallows, that was full half a mile beyant it; […]”

“Innes, stravaiging the square and wynds in his apple-cart, jingled his weights in vain, unable to shake even moneyed children off their stools; […]”

“That I should live to see the time when me only daughter stravages the roads and hides behind stones in the night with a soldier!”

“In a way perhaps it's a pity, a good woman might have been the making of me, I might be sprawling in the sun now sucking my pipe and patting the bottoms of the third and fourth generation, looked up to and respected, wondering what there was for dinner, instead of stravaging the same old roads in all weathers, I was never much of a one for new ground.”

“Dear gudeman, what has put it i'your head that our bairn stravaigs i'the night-time?”

“Would you have an old woman like me stravaiging about the shore by myself?”

“[A] real lady like you wouldn't go prying into what she's no call to, like that fine decked-out body, Duncombe's wife, which had best mind her own children, which it is a shame to see stravaging about the place!”

“Whenever we came to any habitations now he would not call at back doors, nor go stravaiging in yards for odd pieces to eat, but he would go gallantly into an inn and offer his payment for the things we would like.”

“'Are your grandchildren well?' / 'They are,' said Connor gloomily, 'but they're very bashful. And they do be stravaiging about always and not contented at all. They are a great distress to herself, and she unable to come out after them.'”

“It is tedious work, training clematis over low posts, so that its beauty does not stravaig up the walls but lies open under the eye; but on the edge of the town many gardeners grew it thus.”

“Michael, stop stravaiging along behind.”

“Everyone knows Frank Robertson skives off work and stravaigs about the countryside breaking hearts.”

“With a robust understanding of the county's big players, and in-depth knowledge of topics such as planning, I stravaged into the world of regional journalism with something of a swagger.”

“Down the main street goes the road, but a path stravaiges by fields and along the grey palings of Warren Manor.”

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