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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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)

6. (Britain, 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?)

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gad

1. snake

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Etymology 1

From gallon.

Noun

gal (plural gal or gals)

1. Abbreviation of gallon.

Etymology 2

Representing a nonstandard pronunciation of girl.

Noun

gal (plural gals)

1. (colloquial) A young woman.

Usage notes

As with many colloquial terms relating to women (including, in some cases, "girl" itself), some may perceive the usage of this term to be derogatory. The word, however, is fairly neutral in and of itself.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:girl

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Shortened from galileo.

Noun

gal (plural gals, symbol Gal)

1. A galileo (unit of acceleration).

See also

• guy

Anagrams

• AGL, ALG, Alg., GLA, LAG, LGA, lag

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch gal. Cognate to English gall.

Noun

gal (uncountable)

1. The bodily fluid bile

Bouyei

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *p.qa?? (“leg”). Cognate with Thai ?? (k?a), Northern Thai ??, Lao ?? (kh?), Lü ?? (?aa), Shan ?? (kh?a), Tai Nüa ??? (xáa), Ahom ???????? (khaa), Zhuang ga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka??/

Noun

gal

1. (anatomy) leg; foot

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /??al/

Adjective

gal (feminine gal·la, masculine plural gals, feminine plural gal·les)

1. Gaulish, Gallic (of or pertaining to Gaul)

   Synonym: gàl·lic

Noun

gal m (plural gals, feminine gal·la)

1. Gaul (a person from Gaul)

Proper noun

gal m

1. Gaulish (Celtic language that was spoken in Gaul)

   Synonym: gàl·lic

Related terms

Further reading

• “gal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “gal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chinese

Etymology

Short for galgame, borrowed from Japanese ?????? (gyaru g?mu), which is wasei eigo (????), from English gal + game.

Noun

gal

1. (ACG, video games) galge (video or computer game centered around interactions with attractive anime-style girls)

   ?gal  ?  tu? gal  ?  to play galge

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??l/, [???æ?l]

Etymology 1

From Old Danish galæn, from Old Norse galinn (“enchanted, mad”), a past participle of gala (“to sing, chant”) (Danish gale (“to crow”)).

Adjective

gal (neuter galt, plural and definite singular attributive gale)

1. crazy, mad, insane (mentally ill)
2. mad, angry (showing temper)
3. wrong (not the right one)
4. bad

References

• “gale,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

From Old Norse gal (“shouting”), derived from the verb gala (“to sing, chant”) (Danish gale (“to crow”)).

Noun

gal n (singular definite galet, plural indefinite gal)

1. crow (the sound of a cock)

Inflection

References

• “gale,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gal

1. imperative of gale

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l/
• Hyphenation: gal
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch galle, from Old Dutch galla, from Proto-Germanic *gall?.

Noun

gal f (uncountable)

1. Bile, gall (yellow-green bodily fluid secreted by the liver).
2. Bile, anger, wrath.

Derived terms

• galblaas
• galsteen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gal

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin galla. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

gal f (plural gallen, diminutive galletje n)

1. A gall (abnormal growth on a plant caused by foreign organisms).

Derived terms

• galappel
• galnoot
• galwesp

Anagrams

• alg, lag

Emilian

Etymology

From Latin gallus.

Noun

gal m

1. cock

French

Noun

gal m (plural gals)

1. A unit of acceleration equal to one centimetre per second per second

Icelandic

Etymology

From gala (“to crow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Noun

gal n (genitive singular gals, no plural)

1. crowing (of a rooster)
2. yelling

Declension

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish gal, from Proto-Celtic *gal? (“ability”) (compare Welsh gallu (“be able”)).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /??l??/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /?al??/

Noun 1

gal f or m (genitive singular gaile, nominative plural gala)

1. warlike ardor
2. valor, fury
3. vapor, steam
4. boiling heat
5. puff, whiff (of smoke, hot air)
6. fit, bout, turn
7. demand

Declension

Derived terms

Noun 2

gal m (genitive singular gail, nominative plural gala)

1. blusterer

   Synonyms: bliústar, bolscaire, galach

Declension

Mutation

References

• "gal" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 gal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “gal” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “gal” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?a?l]

Conjunction

gál

1. maybe, perhaps

Middle English

Alternative forms

• gol

Etymology

From Old English g?l (“lust, luxury, wantonness, folly, levity”)

Adjective

gal

1. lascivious, lustful

   nawt ane euch fleschlich hondlunge, ah ?etten euch gal word ... — Ancrene Wisse, c1230

   Sweche pinen he þolien schal þat her wes of his fles ful gal And wolde louien his fleses wil. — Eleven Pains of Hell, 1300

2. overly fond of

   Gripes freteþ hoere mawen And hoere inward everuidel, Ne be þe þarof no so gal, Eft hoe werpeþ al in al. — Eleven Pains of Hell, 1300

Derived terms

References

• Middle English Dictionary, gol

Nalca

Noun

gal

1. tree

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse galinn, from gala (“sing bewitching songs, in actuality bewitched by magical singing”)

Adjective

gal (neuter singular galt, definite singular and plural gale, comparative galere, indefinite superlative galest, definite superlative galeste)

1. insane; crazy; out of one's mind; mad
2. incorrect; erroneous; wrong; illegal; morally reproachable

Derived terms

• galehus
• galskap
• (insane; crazy): stormannsgal
• (with a very strong interest in): bilgal, fartsgal, guttegal, jentegal, sexgal
• (phrases): bære galt av sted, det er aldri så galt at det ikke er godt for noe, gå galt, riv ruskende gal, vill og gal

See also

• galen (Nynorsk)
• gæren (Bokmål) (alternative spelling)

Etymology 2

Related to the verb gale.

Noun

gal n (definite singular galet, indefinite plural gal, definite plural gala or galene)

1. crow ((instance of) rooster's crowing)

Derived terms

• hanegal

Related terms

• nattergal

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gal

1. imperative of gale

References

• “gal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From gala (“to howl”).

Noun

gal n (definite singular galet, indefinite plural gal, definite plural gala)

1. a crow, howl, scream

Related terms

• galing f

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Proper noun

gal (upper case Gal)

1. Abbreviation of galatarbrevet.

Etymology 3

Possibly from English. An abbreviation.

Symbol

gal

1. symbol used to represent a gallon

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gal

1. imperative of gala

References

• “gal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Gal, gla, lag

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin gallus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?al]

Noun

gal m (plural gals)

1. A cock, rooster

Related terms

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gail.

Cognate with Old Saxon g?l, Dutch geil (“salacious, lustful”), Old High German geil (German geil (“lustful”)), Old Norse geiligr (“beautiful”). The Indo-European root may also be the source of Lithuanian gailùs (“sharp, biting”), Russian ????? (zeló, “very”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l/

Adjective

g?l (comparative g?lra, superlative g?lost)

1. wanton, lustful; wicked

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: gal, gol
  • English: gole (dialectal)

Old French

Noun

gal m (oblique plural gaus or gax or gals, nominative singular gaus or gax or gals, nominative plural gal)

1. A rock

Descendants

• French: galet, galette
• Norman: galet, galette, galiche, galot

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?al/

Etymology 1

From Latin [Term?].

Noun

gal m inan

1. gallium

Declension

Etymology 2

Named in honour of Galileo Galilei

Noun

gal m inan

1. A galileo

Declension

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

gal

1. genitive plural of gala

Further reading

• gal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• ????????????????? (gal) – Hanifi Rohingya script

Noun

gal (Hanifi spelling ????????????????)

1. mouth

Romagnol

Etymology

From Latin gallus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?al/

Noun

gal m (plural ghël)

1. rooster (male domestic fowl)
   • September 2012, Loris Pasini, E’ gal in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 15:

     E’ gal

     The rooster

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin Gallus.

Noun

gal m (plural gali)

1. a Gaul

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French gal.

Noun

gal m (plural gali)

1. (physics) unit of measurement of acceleration, equal to 1 centimeter per second squared

See also

• gâl

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kal??/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

gal m (genitive singular gail, plural gail)

1. verbal noun of gail (“cry, weep”)
2. (act of) crying, wailing
3. wail

Etymology 2

From Old Irish gal (“warlike ardour, fury, valour”).

Noun

gal m (genitive singular gail, plural gail)

1. burst of light/heat
2. ardour
3. valour
4. fury
5. vapour, steam

Mutation

References

• “gal” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 gal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• g?o

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gal?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?â?l/
• Hyphenation: gal

Adjective

g?l (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (dated) black, dark (physical attributes)
2. (dated) dark fur

Synonyms

• c?n
• m?k

Derived terms

• gàljan

Related terms

• g?lica

Somali

Verb

gal

1. enter

Swedish

Verb

gal

1. present tense of gala.
2. imperative of gala.

Anagrams

• alg, lag

Zou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?al?/

Noun

gal

1. war

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 44