gad

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See also: Gad, GAD, and gàd

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Taboo deformation of God.

Interjection[edit]

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.
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From 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)

  1. (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.
    • 1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Fourth, page 123
      So when he saw King Arthur he said: "Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?"
    • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 19, [1]
      But there is no telling the sacrament, seldom if in any case revealed to the gadding world, wherever under circumstances at all akin to those here attempted to be set forth, two of great Nature's nobler order embrace.
    • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
      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.
    Synonym: gallivant
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

gad (plural gads)

  1. one who roams about idly; a gadabout

Etymology 3[edit]

From Middle English gade (“a fool, rascal, scoundrel; bastard”), from Old English gāda (“fellow, companion, comrade, associate”). Cognate with Dutch gade (“spouse”), German Gatte (“male spouse, husband”). See also gadling.

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

gad (plural gads)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, derogatory) a greedy and/or stupid person
    • Jamieson, John (1825)
      He's a perfect gad for silver.
    • Gordon, George (1913)
      Ye greedy ged, ye have taken the very breath out o' me.
    Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ

References[edit]

Etymology 4[edit]

From Middle English gad, gadde, borrowed from Old Norse gaddr (“goad, spike”), from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz (“spike, rod, stake”).

Noun[edit]

gad (plural gads)

  1. 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.
  2. (obsolete) a metal bar
    • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, 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.
  3. 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
  4. (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.
  5. a spike on a gauntlet; a gadling
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)
  6. (Britain, US, dialectal) 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

  1. past tense of gide

Irish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Irish gat.

Noun[edit]

gad m (genitive singular gaid, nominative plural gaid)

  1. withe
  2. string, rope, band
  3. Obsolete spelling of goid
  4. Obsolete spelling of cad
Declension[edit]
Declension of gad

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gad gaid
Vocative a ghaid a ghada
Genitive gaid gad
Dative gad gaid

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an gad na gaid
Genitive an ghaid na ngad
Dative leis an ngad

don ghad

leis na gaid

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Irish gataid (“takes away, removes, pulls or snatches away; takes away (something from someone), deprives of; of carrying off booty; takes away the expectation, hope of (something, an event); steals”).

Verb[edit]

gad (present analytic gadann, future analytic gadfaidh, verbal noun gad, past participle gadta)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, literary) take away, remove; snatch, carry off
  2. Alternative form of goid
Conjugation[edit]
First Conjugation (A)
singular plural relative autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative present gadaim gadann tú;
gadair† 		gadann sé, sí gadaimid gadann sibh gadann siad;
gadaid† 		a ghadann; a ghadas /
a ngadann*; a ngadas* 		gadtar
past ghad mé; ghadas ghad tú; ghadais ghad sé, sí ghadamar; ghad muid ghad sibh; ghadabhair ghad siad; ghadadar a ghad /
ar ghad* 		gadadh
past habitual ghadainn ghadtá ghadadh sé, sí ghadaimis; ghadadh muid ghadadh sibh ghadaidís; ghadadh siad a ghadadh /
ar ghadadh* 		ghadtaí
future gadfaidh mé;
gadfad 		gadfaidh tú;
gadfair† 		gadfaidh sé, sí gadfaimid;
gadfaidh muid 		gadfaidh sibh gadfaidh siad;
gadfaid† 		a ghadfaidh; a ghadfas /
a ngadfaidh*; a ngadfas* 		gadfar
conditional ghadfainn / ngadfainn‡‡ ghadfá / ngadfᇇ ghadfadh sé, sí / ngadfadh sé, s퇇 ghadfaimis; ghadfadh muid / ngadfaimis‡‡; ngadfadh muid‡‡ ghadfadh sibh / ngadfadh sibh‡‡ ghadfaidís; ghadfadh siad / ngadfaidís‡‡; ngadfadh siad‡‡ a ghadfadh /
ar ghadfadh* 		ghadfaí / ngadfa퇇
subjunctive present go ngada mé;
go ngadad† 		go ngada tú;
go ngadair† 		go ngada sé, sí go ngadaimid;
go ngada muid 		go ngada sibh go ngada siad;
go ngadaid† 		— go ngadtar
past dá ngadainn dá ngadtá dá ngadadh sé, sí dá ngadaimis;
dá ngadadh muid 		dá ngadadh sibh dá ngadaidís;
dá ngadadh siad 		— dá ngadtaí
imperative gadaim gad gadadh sé, sí gadaimis gadaigí;
gadaidh† 		gadaidís — gadtar
verbal noun gad
past participle gadta

* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form
‡‡ Dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gad ghad ngad
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

  • "gad" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “gad” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 344.
  • “gat” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “gataid (‘take away, steal’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Entries containing “gad” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “gad” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Lower Sorbian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *gadъ (“serpent”)

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

gad m

  1. (archaic) venomous snake, viper, adder
  2. poison, venom

Declension[edit]

Animate declension (‘venomous snake, viper, adder’):

Declension of gad
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative gad gada gady
Genitive gada gadowu gadow
Dative gadoju gadoma gadam
Accusative gada gadowu gady, gadow
Instrumental gadom gadoma gadami
Locative gaźe gadoma gadach

Inanimate declension (‘poison, venom’):

Declension of gad
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative gad gada gady
Genitive gada gadowu gadow
Dative gadoju gadoma gadam
Accusative gad gada gady
Instrumental gadom gadoma gadami
Locative gaźe gadoma gadach

Navajo[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kàt/, [kàt], [kɣàt]

Noun[edit]

gad

  1. juniper, cedar (especially Juniperus deppeana)

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *gadъ

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɡat/
  • Audio
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Noun[edit]

gad m anim

  1. reptile (cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia)
  2. (Silesia, Bukovina) snake (reptile of the suborder Serpentes)

Declension[edit]

declension of gad
singular plural
nominative gad gady
genitive gada gadów
dative gadowi gadom
accusative gada gady
instrumental gadem gadami
locative gadzie gadach
vocative gadzie gady

Derived terms[edit]

Noun[edit]

gad m pers

  1. scoundrel (villain)

Declension[edit]

declension of gad
singular plural
nominative gad gady
genitive gada gadów
dative gadowi gadom
accusative gada gadów
instrumental gadem gadami
locative gadzie gadach
vocative gadzie gady

Further reading[edit]

  • gad in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

gad

  1. 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]

Related terms[edit]

Noun[edit]

gad m (genitive singular gaid, plural gaid or gadan)

  1. withy, withe

Conjunction[edit]

gad

  1. Alternative form of ged

Mutation[edit]

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
gad ghad
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *gadъ

Noun[edit]

gȁd m (Cyrillic spelling га̏д)

  1. a repulsive person
  2. scoundrel
  3. cad
  4. asshole
  5. snake; lizard

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

Somali[edit]

Verb[edit]

gad

  1. to buy

Torres Strait Creole[edit]

Noun[edit]

gad

  1. (eastern dialect) an immature coconut

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]

Etymology[edit]

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Noun[edit]

gad

  1. snake

Inflection[edit]

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Volapük[edit]

Noun[edit]

gad (plural gads)

  1. garden

Declension[edit]

declension of gad
singular plural
nominative gad gads
genitive gada gadas
dative gade gades
accusative gadi gadis
vocative 1 o gad! o gads!
predicative 2 gadu gadus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms[edit]

Welsh[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

gad

  1. 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.

Etymology 2[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Verb[edit]

gad

  1. (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.

Western Apache[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

gad

  1. cedar or juniper tree, especially Juniperus deppeana.

References[edit]

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