Gad

//ɡæd// intj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    An exclamation roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake.

    "That's the trouble — it was too easy for you — you got reckless — thought you could turn me inside out, and chuck me in the gutter like an empty purse. But, by gad, that ain't playing fair: that's dodging the rules of the game."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The seventh son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.
  2. 2
    One of the Israelite tribes mentioned in the Torah, descended from Gad.
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
  2. 2
    A greedy and/or stupid person. Northern-England, Scotland, derogatory

    "Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ"

  3. 3
    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. UK, US, dialectal, especially

    "Ist yoakes and bowes and gad and yoaksticks there?"

  4. 4
    Acronym of generalized anxiety disorder. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  5. 5
    a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward wordnet
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  1. 6
    A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod. UK, US, dialectal

    "And we'll prepare our limber gads, Lang lines, and braw brass wheels;"

  2. 7
    an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc. that has lasted for more than six months wordnet
  3. 8
    A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock. especially

    "I will go get a leaf of brass, / And with a gad of steel will write these words."

  4. 9
    A metal bar. obsolete

    "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."

  5. 10
    An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds. dated

    "Twice a day a 'gad' of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1 cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours."

  6. 11
    A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.

    "Sometimes we see the knuckles ornamented with gads or gadlings."

Verb
  1. 1
    To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner. intransitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    wander aimlessly in search of pleasure wordnet
  3. 3
    To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Euphemistic alteration of God.

Etymology 2

From Middle English gadden (“to hurry, to rush about”), of obscure origin.

Etymology 3

From Middle English gadden (“to hurry, to rush about”), of obscure origin.

Etymology 4

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.

Etymology 5

From Middle English gad, gadde, borrowed from Old Norse gaddr (“goad, spike”), from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz (“spike, rod, stake”). Doublet of goad and yard.

Etymology 6

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew גָּד (gad), a son of Jacob.

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