gad
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Taboo deformation of God.
Interjection[edit]
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.
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Middle English gadden (“to hurry, to rush about”).
Verb[edit]
gad (third-person singular simple present gads, present participle gadding, simple past and past participle gadded)
- (intransitive) To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
- 1852, Alice Cary, Clovernook ....
- 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.
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1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XIII:
- If you are on the board of governors of a school and have contracted to supply an orator for the great day of the year, you can be forgiven for feeling a trifle jumpy when you learn that the silver-tongued one has gadded off to the metropolis, leaving no word as to when he will be returning, if ever.
- 1852, Alice Cary, Clovernook ....
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to move about at random with seemingly little purpose
Etymology 3[edit]
From Old Norse gaddr (“goad, spike”).
Noun[edit]
gad (plural gads)
- A sharp-pointed object; a goad.
- 1885, Detroit Free Press., December 17
- 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.
- 1885, Detroit Free Press., December 17
- (obsolete) A metal bar.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XV:
- they sette uppon hym and drew oute their swerdys to have slayne hym – but there wolde no swerde byghte on hym more than uppon a gadde of steele, for the Hyghe Lorde which he served, He hym preserved.
- Moxon
- Flemish steel […] some in bars and some in gads.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XV:
- A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock, especially in mining.
- Shakespeare
- I will go get a leaf of brass, / And with a gad of steel will write these words.
- 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
- Shakespeare
- (dated, metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, perhaps equivalent to the bloom, perhaps weighing around 100 pounds.
- 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 146.
- Twice a day a 'gad' of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1 cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours.
- 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 146.
- A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)
- (UK, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
Translations[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Danish[edit]
Verb[edit]
gad
- past tense of gide
Lojban[edit]
Rafsi[edit]
gad
Lower Sorbian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *gadъ (“serpent”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gad m
Declension[edit]
Animate declension (‘venomous snake, viper, adder’):
Declension of gad
Inanimate declension (‘poison, venom’):
Declension of gad
Middle Low German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Saxon, from Proto-Germanic *gudą.
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): [ɣɔːt], IPA(key): [ɣɒːt] (more on the merger of monophthongal A and O)
Noun[edit]
gād m
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Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gad
Polish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gad m
Declension[edit]
declension of gad
Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
gad
- you (informal singular, direct object)
- Bruidhinn nas labhaire, chan eil mi gad chluinntinn ceart. ― Speak louder, I don't hear you well.
Usage notes[edit]
- Lenites the following word.
Related terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
gad m (genitive gaid, plural gaid or gadan)
Conjunction[edit]
gad
- alternative form of ged
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *gadъ
Noun[edit]
gȁd m (Cyrillic spelling га̏д)
Declension[edit]
declension of gad
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | gad | gadovi |
| genitive | gada | gadova |
| dative | gadu | gadovima |
| accusative | gada | gadove |
| vocative | gade | gadovi |
| locative | gadu | gadovima |
| instrumental | gadom | gadovima |
Torres Strait Creole[edit]
Noun[edit]
gad
Usage notes[edit]
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.
Veps[edit]
Noun[edit]
gad
Volapük[edit]
Noun[edit]
gad (plural gads)
Declension[edit]
declension of gad
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from gad
Welsh[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
gad
- Soft mutation of cad.
Mutation[edit]
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| cad | gad | nghad | chad |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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Etymology 2[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- gadawa (colloquial)
Verb[edit]
gad
- (literary) second-person singular imperative of gadael
Mutation[edit]
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| gad | ad | ngad | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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