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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Etymology 1

Taboo deformation of God.

Interjection

gad

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

Derived terms

• egads
• egad

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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.

   Synonym: gallivant

   • 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.

Derived terms

• gadabout
• gaddish, gaddishness

Translations

Noun

gad (plural gads)

1. One who roams about idly; a gadabout.

Etymology 3

From Middle English gade (“a fool, rascal, scoundrel; bastard”), from Old English g?da (“fellow, companion, comrade, associate”), related to Proto-West Germanic *gaduling (“kinsman”). Cognate with Dutch gade (“spouse”), German Gatte (“male spouse, husband”). See also gadling.

Alternative forms

• ged, gade

Noun

gad (plural gads)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, derogatory) A greedy and/or stupid person.
   • 1913, George Gordon, The Auld Clay Biggin

     Ye greedy ged, ye have taken the very breath out o' me.

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 4

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

Noun

gad (plural gads)

1. A sharp-pointed object; a goad.

   Synonym: 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.

   • 1677-1684, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick exercises

     Flemish steel […] some in bars and some in gads.

3. (especially mining) A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.
   • 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.

   Synonyms: gadling, spike

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6. (Britain, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with.

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Derived terms

• gadfly

Translations

Anagrams

• DAG, GDA, dag

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d/

Noun

gád m (plural gadoowá f)

1. song

Declension

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???æ?ð], [???æð?]

Verb

gad

1. past tense of gide

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish gat.

Noun

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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

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

Mutation

Further reading

• "gad" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “gad” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 344.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gat”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gataid (‘take away, steal’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• 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

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gad? (“serpent”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?at/

Noun

gad m

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

Declension

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

Inanimate declension (‘poison, venom’):

Further reading

• gad in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• gad in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Navajo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kàt/, [kàt], [k?àt]

Noun

gad

1. juniper, cedar (especially Juniperus deppeana)

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gad?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?at/

Noun

gad m anim

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

Declension

Derived terms

• gadzi (adjective)

Noun

gad m pers

1. scoundrel (villain)

Declension

Further reading

• gad in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• gad in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kat?/

Pronoun

gad

1. you (informal singular, direct object)

Usage notes

• Lenites the following word.

Related terms

Noun

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

1. withy, withe

Conjunction

gad

1. Alternative form of ged

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gad?

Noun

g?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

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

Declension

Somali

Verb

gad

1. to buy

Torres Strait Creole

Noun

gad

1. (eastern dialect) an immature coconut

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.

Veps

Etymology

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Noun

gad

1. snake

Inflection

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Volapük

Noun

gad (nominative plural gads)

1. garden

Declension

Derived terms

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?d/

Etymology 1

Noun

gad

1. Soft mutation of cad.

Mutation

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• gadawa (colloquial)

Verb

gad

1. (literary) second-person singular imperative of gadael

Mutation

Western Apache

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kàt]

Noun

gad

1. cedar or juniper tree, especially Juniperus deppeana.

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

English

Etymology

Compare cod (“kind of fish”).

Noun

gade (plural gades)

1. Any of various fish of the cod family found in British waters; especially those of the genera Gadus and Motella.
2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete, Moray Firth) A pike.

Synonyms

• (pike): gead

Anagrams

• aged, agèd, egad

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish gatæ, from Old Norse gata, whence English gate. Cognate with German Gasse (“lane”), Gothic ???????????????????? (gatw?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???æ?ð?]
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

gade c (singular definite gaden, plural indefinite gader)

1. street (a paved part of road, usually in a village or a town)

Inflection

Derived terms

Dutch

Alternative forms

• ga (mostly in compounds)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gade, from gegade, from Old Dutch *gigado. Substantivised form of the past participle of gaden, which is now obsolete.

Related to eega, gading, gader, tegader, gaderen, vergaderen, gegadigde, allegaartje, weerga and possibly also goed. Cognate with German Gatte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?d?/

Noun

gade m or f (plural gaden, diminutive gadetje n)

1. spouse (husband or wife)

Related terms

• gading

French

Etymology

From Latin gadus (“fish, probably from among the Gadiformes”), from Ancient Greek ????? (gádos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ad/

Noun

gade m (plural gades)

1. cod (any fish of the Gadidae)

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French regarder (“look, watch”)

Verb

gade

1. (transitive) to look (at)
2. (transitive) to watch

See also

• wè

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

gade (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. vocative singular of gad

Walloon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gaits (compare English goat).

Noun

gade f (r)

1. goat (species)
2. goat (female animal)
3. female of roebuck
4. rest for carpenters, etc.

Derived terms

• gadot
• gadlî
• gadler
• s' agadler
• ragadler