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gid
English
Etymology 1
Noun
gid (uncountable)
- A disease of sheep caused by tapeworm.
Etymology 2
Compare Old French gigue. See jig (noun).
Noun
gid (plural gids)
- (obsolete) A fiddle.
Anagrams
- DIG, GDI, GDI+, IgD, dIG, dig
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [???ið?]
Etymology 1
An abbreviation of Gud give det, "(may) God give it".
Adverb
gid
- I wish, if only
- Gid denne forbandede krig var ovre!
- How I wish that this accursed war were over.
- Gid denne forbandede krig var ovre!
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
gid
- imperative of gide
Mauritian Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?id/
Etymology
From French guider.
Noun
gid
- a guide
Verb
gid
- Medial form of gide
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??it/
Etymology 1
Noun
gid m pers
- (Cieszyn Silesia) Alternative form of gizd.
Etymology 2
From French guide.
Noun
gid m pers
- (literary) guide (someone who guides)
- Synonym: przewodnik
Declension
Noun
gid m inan
- (travel) guide book
- Synonym: przewodnik
Declension
Further reading
- gid in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Scots
Adjective
gid (comparative mair gid, superlative maist gid)
- good
Zaniza Zapotec
Noun
gid
- skin
- leather
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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
Etymology
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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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