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gad¹
- /ɡæd/
Rhymes with -æd
Where it comes from
Euphemistic alteration of God.
interjection
- An exclamation roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake. The clasp slips free (gad, what lush kazooms) and she even helps him pull off the blouse that is now cuffing her at the elbows.
gad²
- /ɡæd/
Rhymes with -æd
Where it comes from
From Middle English gadden (“to hurry, to rush about”), of obscure origin.
verb gads · gadding · gadded
-
To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
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.
Similar: gallivant
- To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.
noun gads
- One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
gad³
- /ɡæd/
Rhymes with -æd
Where it comes from
From Middle English gade (“a fool, simpleton, rascal, scoundrel; bastard”), from Old English *gada (“fellow, companion, comrade, associate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadō, from Proto-Germanic *gadô, *gagadô (“companion, associate”), related to Proto-West Germanic *gaduling (“kinsman”). Cognate with Dutch gade (“spouse”), German Gatte (“male spouse, husband”). See also gadling.
noun gads · ged · gade
- A greedy and/or stupid person. Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ
gad⁴
- /ɡæd/
Rhymes with -æd
Where it comes from
From Middle English gad, gadde, borrowed from Old Norse gaddr (“goad, spike”), from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz (“spike, rod, stake”). Doublet of goad and yard.
noun gads
- A goad, a sharp-pointed rod for driving cattle, horses, etc, or one with a whip or thong on the end for the same purpose. Ist yoakes and bowes and gad and yoaksticks there?
- A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod. And we'll prepare our limber gads, Lang lines, and braw brass wheels;
- A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock; a pick. I will go get a leaf of brass, / And with a gad of steel will write these words.
- A metal bar. 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.
- An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds. Twice a day a 'gad' of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1 cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours.
- A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling. Sometimes we see the knuckles ornamented with gads or gadlings.
Gad⁵
- /ɡæd/ US, UK
Rhymes with -æd
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew גָּד (gad), a son of Jacob.
proper noun
- The seventh son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.
- One of the Israelite tribes mentioned in the Torah, descended from Gad.
- A male given name from Hebrew. “We’ve got civilizational suicidal empathy going on,” Musk said, borrowing the term from Gad Saad, a Canadian scholar who is also a frequent Rogan host.
- A surname.
GAD⁶
noun
- Acronym of generalized anxiety disorder
Translations
Talk about this word "gad." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/gad. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. gad. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/gad "gad." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/gad.Cite this
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title = {gad},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gad},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
