gad
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology 1
Taboo deformation of God.
[edit] Interjection
gad
- 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
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to gad (third-person singular simple present gads, present participle gadding, simple past and past participle gadded)
- 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
[edit] Noun
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gad (plural gads)
- 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.
- 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
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 327:
- (obsolete) A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel.
- 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.
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- IPA: [kɑ̀t]~[kɣɑ̀t]
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gad
[edit] Polish
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[edit] Noun
gad m.
- 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 |
[edit] Scottish Gaelic
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gad
- 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.
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[edit] Conjunction
gad
- Alternative form of ged.
[edit] Serbo-Croatian
[edit] Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *gadъ
[edit] Noun
gȁd m. (Cyrillic spelling га̏д)
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declension of gad
| singular | plural | |
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| nominative | gad | gadovi |
| genitive | gada | gadova |
| dative | gadu | gadovima |
| accusative | gada | gadove |
| vocative | gade | gadovi |
| locative | gadu | gadovima |
| instrumental | gadom | gadovima |
[edit] Torres Strait Creole
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gad
[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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gad
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