It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for August 14th.
Today's word is Gatabout, spelled G-A-D-A-B-O-U-T.
Gatabout is a noun.
A gatabout is a person who flits about in social activity,
as by going to many places in social events for pleasure.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Rolling Stone by Daniel Craps.
The wild career of David Johansson, New York Dolls frontman, punk Gatabout, occasional actor,
and Buster Poindexter portrayer will be the focus of an upcoming documentary co-directed by Martin Scorsese.
If you had to pick an insect most closely related to a Gatabout,
you might riley guess the social butterfly.
But there's another bug that's commonly heard buzzing around discussions of the gadabout,
the gadfly.
Gadfly is a term used for any of a number of winged pests,
such as horseflies, that bite or annoy livestock.
But although a gadabout's gossip can bite,
gadfly doesn't have any clear etymological relation to the word gadabout.
This word, which comes from the English phrase, gad, about, traces back to the Middle English verb,
gadden, meaning to be on the go without a specific aim or purpose.
That word's source hasn't left a trail.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.