stravaig

• stravaige

• Rhymes: -æɡ

stravaig (third-person singular simple present stravaigs, present participle stravaiging, simple past and past participle stravaiged)

1. (Scotland) to stroll, meander

1. • 1946: Rebecca West, "Greenhouse with Cyclamens I," in A Train of Powder, p. 22.

     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.

   • 1964: Mary Poppins (movie).

     Mary Poppins: "Michael, stop stravaiging along behind." (Watch clip on YouTube.)

• extravagant

• gravitas, vagarist

• IPA^(key): /strɑˈveɡ/

stravaig (third-person singular simple present stravaigs, present participle stravaigin, simple past stravaigt, past participle stravaigt)

1. to stroll, to roam carelessly

stravaig (plural stravaigs)

1. a stroll, an aimless meandering

• “stravaig, n, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.