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jaunting

[jawnt, jahnt] Origin

jaunt

[jawnt, jahnt]
noun
1.
a short journey, especially one taken for pleasure.
verb (used without object)
2.
to make a short journey.

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Jaunting is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1560–70; origin uncertain

jaunt·ing·ly, adverb
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jaunt
1678 in modern sense, earlier meaning "tiresome journey" (1592), originally "to ride a horse in such a way as to tire him" (1572), of unknown origin, probably from some obscure O.Fr. word.
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