different between gadding vs gadling

English

Verb

gadding

1. present participle of gad

Noun

gadding (plural gaddings)

1. The act of one who gads, or moves about frivolously.
   • 1879, William Adolph Baillie Grohman, Gaddings with a Primitive People

English

Etymology

From Middle English gadling (“companion in arms; man, fellow; a person of low birth; rascal, scoundrel; bastard; base, lowborn”), gadeling (“vagabond”), from Old English geaduling, gædeling (“kinsman, fellow, companion in arms, comrade”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaduling, from Proto-Germanic *gadulingaz, *gadilingaz (“relative, kinsman”), equivalent to gad +? -ling. Related to Old English g?da (“comrade, companion”).

Noun

gadling (plural gadlings)

1. (obsolete) A companion in arms, fellow, comrade.
   • 14th century, unknown author, "The Killing of Abel", Towneley Cycle, manuscript of mid 15th century

     Gedlyngis, I am a fulle grete wat.

2. A roving vagabond; one who roams
3. A man of humble condition; a fellow; a low fellow; lowborn; originally comrade or companion, in a good sense, but later used in reproach
4. A spike on a gauntlet; a gad.

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia