Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A merrymaking; a noisy frolic, particularly among young people; depredation; great disorder.
- To commit wild and lawless depredation; plunder; spoil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
noisy riotous conduct - verb to
feast in a noisy and riotous manner
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word gilravage.
Examples
-
I canna be doin 'wi' a gilravage o 'bairns aboot a hoose -- "
The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887
pavonine commented on the word gilravage
to feast in a noisy and riotous manner
August 18, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word gilravage
(verb) - To hold a merry meeting, with noise and riot, but without doing injury to anyone. It seems generally to include the idea of a wasteful use of food and of intemperate use of strong drink. Could we suppose that the proper pronunciation were guleravage it might be derived from French gueule, the mouth, the throat, also the stomach, conjoined with the verb already mentioned; to waste, to gormandize. --John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 1808
February 6, 2018