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gad
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æd/
- Rhymes: -æd
Etymology 1
Taboo deformation of God.
Interjection
gad
- 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)
- (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)
- 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)
- (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.
- 1913, George Gordon, The Auld Clay Biggin
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)
- 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.
- (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.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XV:
- (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
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 327:
- (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.
- Synonyms: gadling, spike
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- (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)
- 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
- past tense of gide
Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish gat.
Noun
gad m (genitive singular gaid, nominative plural gaid)
- withe
- string, rope, band
- Obsolete spelling of goid
- 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)
- (transitive, intransitive, literary) take away, remove; snatch, carry off
- 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
- (archaic) venomous snake, viper, adder
- 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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kàt/, [kàt], [k?àt]
Noun
gad
- juniper, cedar (especially Juniperus deppeana)
Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *gad?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?at/
Noun
gad m anim
- reptile (cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia)
- (Cieszyn Silesia, Upper Silesia, Bukovina) snake (reptile of the suborder Serpentes)
Declension
Derived terms
- gadzi (adjective)
Noun
gad m pers
- 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
- you (informal singular, direct object)
Usage notes
- Lenites the following word.
Related terms
Noun
gad m (genitive singular gaid, plural gaid or gadan)
- withy, withe
Conjunction
gad
- Alternative form of ged
Mutation
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *gad?
Noun
g?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- a repulsive person
- scoundrel
- cad
- asshole
- snake; lizard
Declension
Somali
Verb
gad
- to buy
Torres Strait Creole
Noun
gad
- (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
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Noun
gad
- snake
Inflection
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Volapük
Noun
gad (nominative plural gads)
- garden
Declension
Derived terms
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?d/
Etymology 1
Noun
gad
- Soft mutation of cad.
Mutation
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- gadawa (colloquial)
Verb
gad
- (literary) second-person singular imperative of gadael
Mutation
Western Apache
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kàt]
Noun
gad
- cedar or juniper tree, especially Juniperus deppeana.
References
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
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stray
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: str?, IPA(key): /st?e?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Etymology 1
From Middle English stray, strey, from Anglo-Norman estray, stray, Old French estrai, from the verb (see below).
Noun
stray (plural strays)
- Any domestic animal that has no enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray.
- (figuratively) One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically.
- The act of wandering or going astray.
- (historical) An area of common land or place administered for the use of general domestic animals, i.e. "the stray"
- (radio) An instance of atmospheric interference.
- 1926, Popular Radio (volume 9, page 191)
- This invention relates broadly to radio communication, but more particularly to a radio receiving system used for the reception of high frequency current signals wherever they are subject to interference from "static" or strays of an untuned or aperiodic character.
- 1942, John C. Mathisson, Radio Acoustic Ranging (page 652)
- Because of their shortness, such signals are usually easy to distinguish from the bomb returns but, when such a stray is recorded just before the bomb return, too close to be distinguished by ear […]
- 1976, IEEE Power Engineering Society, Nuclear Power: Health, Safety, Waste Disposal (page 20)
- Electromagnetic interference EMI, radio interference RI, television interference TVI, and radio frequency interference RFI, can all be described as a confusion to received radio signals due to strays and undesirable signals.
- 1926, Popular Radio (volume 9, page 191)
Hyponyms
- (stray cats) See feral cat
Related terms
- astray
- estray
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English strayen, partly from Old French estraier, from Vulgar Latin via strata, and partly from Middle English strien, streyen, strey?en (“to spread, scatter”), from Old English str??an (“to strew”).
Verb
stray (third-person singular simple present strays, present participle straying, simple past and past participle strayed)
- (intransitive) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
- 1642, John Denham, Cooper's Hill
- Thames among the wanton valleys strays.
- 1642, John Denham, Cooper's Hill
- (intransitive) To wander from one's limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
- November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- It was a derby that left Manchester United a long way back in Manchester City’s wing-mirrors and, in the worst moments, straying dangerously close to being their own worst enemy.
- November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- (transitive) To cause to stray.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, V. i. 51:
- Hath not else his eye / Strayed his affection in unlawful love,
- 1591, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, V. i. 51:
Synonyms
- deviate
- err
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English stray, from the noun (see above).
Adjective
stray (not comparable)
- Having gone astray; strayed; wandering
- In the wrong place; misplaced.
- a stray comma
Derived terms
- stray line
- stray mark
Translations
References
Anagrams
- T-rays, artsy, satyr, stary, trays, yrast
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