gad
/ɡæd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.92 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
An exclamation roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake.
verb
To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
Intransitive verb
verb
To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.
Example Sentences
- "The clasp slips free (gad, what lush kazooms) and she even helps him pull off the blouse that is now cuffing her at the elbows."
- "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."
- "So when he saw King Arthur he said: "Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?""
- "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."
- "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."
- "Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡæd/
- British English: /ɡæd/
Usage
- Intransitive verb
- Derogatory
- British usage
- American usage
- Obsolete
- Dated
- Uncountable
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.