gad

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Interjection 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Noun 1.5 Anagrams 2 Navajo 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Noun 3 Polish 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Noun 3.2.1 Declension 4 Scottish Gaelic 4.1 Pronoun 4.1.1 Usage notes 4.1.2 Related terms 4.2 Conjunction 5 Serbo-Croatian 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Noun 5.2.1 Declension 6 Torres Strait Creole 6.1 Noun 6.1.1 Usage notes 7 Veps 7.1 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /gæd/

  Rhymes: -æd

[edit] Etymology 1

Taboo deformation of God.

[edit] Interjection

gad

1. An exclamatory interjection roughly equivalent to 'by God', 'goodness gracious', 'for goodness' sake'.

   1905 That's the trouble -- it was too easy for you -- you got reckless -- thought you could turn me inside out, and chuck me in the gutter like an empty purse. But, by gad, that ain't playing fair: that's dodging the rules of the game. — Edith Wharton, House of Mirth.

[edit] Etymology 2

Middle English gadden (“‘to hurry, to rush about’”).

[edit] Verb

to gad (third-person singular simple present gads, present participle gadding, simple past and past participle gadded)

1. To move from one location to another in an apparently random manner; often as phrasal verb gad about.

   1852' "This, I suppose, is the virgin who abideth still in the house with you. She is not given, I hope, to gadding overmuch, nor to vain and foolish decorations of her person with ear-rings and finger-rings, and crisping-pins: for such are unprofitable, yea, abominable. — Alice Cary, Clovernook ....

[edit] Etymology 3

From Old Norse gaddr.

[edit] Noun

gad (plural gads)

1. A sharp-pointed object; a goad.

   December 17, 1885 Twain finds his voice after a short search for it and when he impels it forward it is a good, strong, steady voice in harness until the driver becomes absent-minded, when it stops to rest, and then the gad must be used to drive it on again. — Detroit Free Press.

2. A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock, especially in mining.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 327:

     Frank was able to keep his eyes open long enough to check his bed with a miner's gad and douse the electric lamp

3. (obsolete) A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel.
4. An old English indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, perhaps equivalent to the bloom, perhaps weighing around 100 pounds.

   1957 Twice a day a 'gad' of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1 cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours. — H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 146.

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of adg
• dag, DAG

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[edit] Navajo

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [kɑ̀t]~[kɣɑ̀t]

[edit] Noun

gad

1. juniper, cedar

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[edit] Polish

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [gat]
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[edit] Noun

gad m.

1. a reptile

[edit] Declension

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gad	gady
Genitive	gada	gadów
Dative	gadowi	gadom
Accusative	gada	gady
Instrumental	gadem	gadami
Locative	gadzie	gadach
Vocative	gadzie	gady

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[edit] Scottish Gaelic

[edit] Pronoun

gad

1. you (informal singular, direct object)

   Bruidhinn nas labhaire, chan eil mi gad chluinntinn ceart. - Speak louder, I don't hear you well.

[edit] Usage notes

• Lenites the following word.

[edit] Related terms

• ga
• gam
• gan
• gar
• gur
• iad
• mi

[edit] Conjunction

gad

1. Alternative form of ged.

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[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gadъ

[edit] Noun

gȁd m. (Cyrillic spelling га̏д)

1. a repulsive person
2. scoundrel
3. cad
4. asshole

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[edit] Torres Strait Creole

[edit] Noun

gad

1. (eastern dialect) An immature coconut.

[edit] Usage notes

Gad or smol koknat is the third stage of coconut growth. It is preceded by giru (eastern dialect) or musu koknat (western dialect), and followed by kopespes.

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[edit] Veps

[edit] Noun

gad

1. snake