v. Sc. and north. Also stravague, stravag(e. [? Aphetic form of EXTRAVAGE v. (? for *extravague).] intr. To wander about aimlessly. Hence Stravaiging vbl. sb. and ppl. a. Also Stravaiger.
1802. [see VAGUE v.1 1 β].
1821. Galt, Ann. Parish, xiii. Lady Macadam’s hens and fowls … being great stravaggers for their meat.
1825. J. Wilson, Noctes Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 25. The belts o’ plantations are no very wide nor the sherubberies stravagin awa’ into wild mountainous regions o’ … breckans.
1825. Brockett, N. C. Gloss., Stravaiging, strolling about.
1842. J. Wilson, Chr. North, III. 293. Those heartless clouds that keep stravaigging over mountain-tops.
1871. Black, Dau. Heth, xxiv. ‘Nonsense!’ said Lady Drum. ‘Would you have an old woman like me stravaiging about the shore by myself?’
1884. Annie S. Swan, Carlowrie, x. 152. Miss Ritchie’s peacock had taken what she called a stravagin’ turn.
1887. Henley, Villon’s Straight Tip, 23. At any graft, no matter what, Your merry goblins soon stravag.
1901. G. Douglas, House w. Green Shutters, 26. Where have you been stravaiging to?
1905. A. I. Shand, Days of Past, xiv. 275. Those stravaiging cottage cats were the most mischievous of poachers.
