gad

aa-noun

gád m (plural gadoowá f or gaditté f or gadoodá f)

gád (canonical masculine)
gadoowá (feminine plural)
gaditté (feminine plural)
gadoodá (feminine plural)
gád (absolutive)
gáda (predicative)
gád (subjective)
gaddí (genitive)
gádal (l-case with-postposition)
gádak (k-case with-postposition)
gádat (t-case with-postposition)
gádah (h-case with-postposition)


gad

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.

1905, Edith Wharton, chapter 13, in The House of Mirth:

goodness gracious
goodness gracious#English

for goodness' sake
for goodness' sake#English

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


gad

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.

So when he saw King Arthur he said: "Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?"

1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Fourth, page 123

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.

1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter [HTTP://GUTENBERG.NET.AU/EBOOKS06/0608511H.HTML 19].”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:

If you are on the board of governors of a school and have contracted to supply an orator for the great day of the year, you can be forgiven for feeling a trifle jumpy when you learn that the silver-tongued one has gadded off to the metropolis, leaving no word as to when he will be returning, if ever.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

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

(of cattle) To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.

en-verb

gad (third-person singular simple present gads, present participle gadding, simple past and past participle gadded)

gads (present singular third-person)
gadding (participle present)
gadded (participle past)
gadded (past)

скитам се

to move about at random with seemingly little purpose

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


gad

Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ

Ye greedy ged, ye have taken the very breath out o' me.

1913, George Gordon, The Auld Clay Biggin:

(Northern England, Scotland, derogatory) A greedy and/or stupid person.

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.


gad

Ist yoakes and bowes and gad and yoaksticks there?

1684, Meriton, Praise Ale, l. 100, in 1851, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, The Yorkshire Anthology: A Collection of Ancient and Modern Ballads, Poems and Songs, Relating to the County of Yorkshire, page 71

Does your cow kick? Do not fly into a passion and pound her with a handspike, or trim her with a gad or a cow-hide.

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.

Our thrifty dame, Mally, she rises soon at morn, She goes and tells the master I'm pulling up the corn; He clicks up the oxen gad and sair belabours me, For I'm Robin Spraggon's auld grey mare, ae how he's guided me!

1888, “Robin Spraggon's Auld Grey Mare”, in The Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend, page 171:

On the morning of Palm-Sunday, the gamekeeper, some servant on the estate, brings with him a large gad or whip, with a long thong; the stock is made of the mountain ash, […]

1908, Folklore Society (Great Britain), Publications, page 288:

(especially UK, US, dialect) 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.

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

1836, A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers, page 4:

Seek out thy tackle, thy creel and thy gad.

1876, Armstrong, Wanny Blossoms, page 33:

Woe to the lad / without a rowen-tree gad.

1879, William Henderson, Folklore Society (Great Britain), Notes on the Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders:

We'll splice oor gads nigh Barra Mill, Beneath yon auld birk tree.

1896, Proudlock, Borderland Muse, page 268:

(UK, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.

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

c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

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, published 2007, page 327:

(especially mining) A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.

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.

1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XV:

Flemish steel […] some in bars and some in gads.

1677–1683, Joseph Moxon, “(please specify the page)”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Joseph Moxon, published 1678–1683, →OCLC:

When a man received sentence of death, he was put upon the gad as it was called, that is, secured to the bar of iron in the manner mentioned in the text. The practice subsisted in Edinburgh […]

1836, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer: With the Author's Last Notes and Additions, page 372:

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, page 146:

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

Sometimes we see the knuckles ornamented with gads or gadlings.

1840, Charles Henry Hartshorne, An Endeavor to Classify the Sepulchral Remains in Northamptonshire, Or, a Discourse on Funeral Monuments in that County: Delivered Before the Members of the Religious and Useful Knowledge Society, at Northampton, page 35:

His gauntlets have embroidered cuffs; there are gads or gadlings on the fingers.

1842, Ecclesiological Society, Illustrations of Monumental Brasses ..., page 70:

Another curious device was that of arming the knuckles of the gauntlets with spikes (gads or gadlings), by which they became weapons as well as defences.

1858, Edward Cave, The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer: Volume the first [-fifth], for the year 1731 [-1735] ..., page 215:

On both finger joints are gads, which are beautifully faceted and brought to a point.

1992, Sir Guy Francis Laking, A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries, page 214:

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


gad

1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases")


gad

head

gad m (genitive singular gaid, nominative plural gaid)

gaid (genitive singular)
gaid (nominative plural)
gad (indefinite nominative singular)
gaid (indefinite nominative plural)
a ghaid (indefinite singular vocative)
a ghada (indefinite plural vocative)
gaid (genitive indefinite singular)
gad (genitive indefinite plural)
gad (dative indefinite singular)
gaid (dative indefinite plural)
an gad (definite nominative singular)
na gaid (definite nominative plural)
an ghaid (definite genitive singular)
na ngad (definite genitive plural)
leis an ngad (dative definite singular)
don ghad (dative definite singular)
leis na gaid (dative definite plural)

→ Fingallian: gad

From Old Irish gat, from Proto-Celtic *gazdos, from late Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰasdʰos (“branch ~ spear, sharp spine”), a root also connected to Proto-Germanic *gazdaz (“spike”), Latin hasta (“spear”).


gad

(transitive, intransitive, literary) take away, remove; snatch, carry off

head

gad (present analytic gadann, future analytic gadfaidh, verbal noun gad, past participle gadta)

gadann (analytic present)
gadfaidh (analytic future)
gad (noun-from-verb)
gadta (participle past)
gadaim (first-person indicative present singular)
gadann tú (indicative present second-person singular)
gadair (indicative present second-person singular)
gadann sé (indicative present singular third-person)
sí (indicative present singular third-person)
gadaimid (first-person indicative plural present)
gadann sibh (indicative plural present second-person)
gadann siad (indicative plural present third-person)
gadaid (indicative plural present third-person)
a ghadann (indicative present relative)
a ghadas (indicative present relative)
a ngadann (indicative present relative)
a ngadas (indicative present relative)
gadtar (autonomous indicative present)
ghad mé (first-person indicative past singular)
ghadas (first-person indicative past singular)
ghad tú (indicative past second-person singular)
ghadais (indicative past second-person singular)
ghad sé (indicative past singular third-person)
sí (indicative past singular third-person)
ghadamar (first-person indicative past plural)
ghad muid (first-person indicative past plural)
ghad sibh (indicative past plural second-person)
ghadabhair (indicative past plural second-person)
ghad siad (indicative past plural third-person)
ghadadar (indicative past plural third-person)
a ghad (indicative past relative)
ar ghad (indicative past relative)
gadadh (autonomous indicative past)
ghadainn (first-person habitual indicative past singular)
ngadainn‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past singular)
ghadtá (habitual indicative past second-person singular)
ngadtá‡‡ (habitual indicative past second-person singular)
ghadadh sé (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
sí (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
ngadadh sé (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
sí‡‡ (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
ghadaimis (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
ghadadh muid (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
ngadaimis‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
ngadadh muid‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
ghadadh sibh (habitual indicative past plural second-person)
ngadadh sibh‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural second-person)
ghadaidís (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
ghadadh siad (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
ngadaidís‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
ngadadh siad‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
a ghadadh (habitual indicative past relative)
a ngadadh (habitual indicative past relative)
ghadtaí (autonomous habitual indicative past)
ngadtaí‡‡ (autonomous habitual indicative past)
gadfaidh mé (first-person future singular)
gadfad (first-person future singular)
gadfaidh tú (future second-person singular)
gadfair (future second-person singular)
gadfaidh sé (future singular third-person)
sí (future singular third-person)
gadfaimid (first-person future plural)
gadfaidh muid (first-person future plural)
gadfaidh sibh (future plural second-person)
gadfaidh siad (future plural third-person)
gadfaid (future plural third-person)
a ghadfaidh (future relative)
a ghadfas (future relative)
a ngadfaidh (future relative)
a ngadfas (future relative)
gadfar (autonomous future)
ghadfainn (conditional first-person singular)
ngadfainn‡‡ (conditional first-person singular)
ghadfá (conditional second-person singular)
ngadfá‡‡ (conditional second-person singular)
ghadfadh sé (conditional singular third-person)
sí (conditional singular third-person)
ngadfadh sé (conditional singular third-person)
sí‡‡ (conditional singular third-person)
ghadfaimis (conditional first-person plural)
ghadfadh muid (conditional first-person plural)
ngadfaimis‡‡ (conditional first-person plural)
ngadfadh muid‡‡ (conditional first-person plural)
ghadfadh sibh (conditional plural second-person)
ngadfadh sibh‡‡ (conditional plural second-person)
ghadfaidís (conditional plural third-person)
ghadfadh siad (conditional plural third-person)
ngadfaidís‡‡ (conditional plural third-person)
ngadfadh siad‡‡ (conditional plural third-person)
a ghadfadh (conditional relative)
a ngadfadh (conditional relative)
ghadfaí (autonomous conditional)
ngadfaí‡‡ (autonomous conditional)
go ngada mé (first-person present singular subjunctive)
go ngadad (first-person present singular subjunctive)
go ngada tú (present second-person singular subjunctive)
go ngadair (present second-person singular subjunctive)
go ngada sé (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sí (present singular subjunctive third-person)
go ngadaimid (first-person plural present subjunctive)
go ngada muid (first-person plural present subjunctive)
go ngada sibh (plural present second-person subjunctive)
go ngada siad (plural present subjunctive third-person)
go ngadaid (plural present subjunctive third-person)
go ngadtar (autonomous present subjunctive)
dá ngadainn (first-person past singular subjunctive)
dá ngadtá (past second-person singular subjunctive)
dá ngadadh sé (past singular subjunctive third-person)
sí (past singular subjunctive third-person)
dá ngadaimis (first-person past plural subjunctive)
dá ngadadh muid (first-person past plural subjunctive)
dá ngadadh sibh (past plural second-person subjunctive)
dá ngadaidís (past plural subjunctive third-person)
dá ngadadh siad (past plural subjunctive third-person)
dá ngadtaí (autonomous past subjunctive)
gadaim (first-person imperative singular)
gad (imperative second-person singular)
gadadh sé (imperative singular third-person)
sí (imperative singular third-person)
gadaimis (first-person imperative plural)
gadaigí (imperative plural second-person)
gadaidh (imperative plural second-person)
gadaidís (imperative plural third-person)
gadtar (autonomous imperative)
gad (noun-from-verb)
gadta (participle past)
gad (mutation mutation-radical)
ghad (lenition mutation)
ngad (eclipsis mutation)


gad

gad (nominative singular)
gada (dual nominative)
gady (nominative plural)
gada (genitive singular)
gadowu (dual genitive)
gadow (genitive plural)
gadoju (dative singular)
gadoma (dative dual)
gadam (dative plural)
gada (accusative singular)
gadowu (accusative dual)
gady (accusative plural)
gadow (accusative plural)
gadom (instrumental singular)
gadoma (dual instrumental)
gadami (instrumental plural)
gaźe (locative singular)
gadoma (dual locative)
gadach (locative plural)


gad

gad (nominative singular)
gada (dual nominative)
gady (nominative plural)
gada (genitive singular)
gadowu (dual genitive)
gadow (genitive plural)
gadoju (dative singular)
gadoma (dative dual)
gadam (dative plural)
gad (accusative singular)
gada (accusative dual)
gady (accusative plural)
gadom (instrumental singular)
gadoma (dual instrumental)
gadami (instrumental plural)
gaźe (locative singular)
gadoma (dual locative)
gadach (locative plural)


gad

English: gad

Borrowed from Old Norse gaddr, from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz (“spike, rod, stake”).


gad

juniper, cedar (especially Juniperus deppeana)


gad

gād (canonical neuter)
gād (nominative singular)
gād (nominative plural)
gād (accusative singular)
gād (accusative plural)
gādes (genitive singular)
gāda (genitive plural)
gāde (dative singular)
gādum (dative plural)

From Proto-West Germanic *gaidu, from Proto-Germanic *gaidwą.


gad

gād (canonical feminine)
gād (nominative singular)
gāda (nominative plural)
gāde (nominative plural)
gāde (accusative singular)
gāda (accusative plural)
gāde (accusative plural)
gāde (genitive singular)
gāda (genitive plural)
gāde (dative singular)
gādum (dative plural)

Middle English: gade, gode

English: goad

Scots: gade, gaid

From Proto-West Germanic *gaidu, from Proto-Germanic *gaidō.


gad

reptile (cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia)

gad (nominative singular)
gady (nominative plural)
gada (genitive singular)
gadów (genitive plural)
gadowi (dative singular)
gadom (dative plural)
gada (accusative singular)
gady (accusative plural)
gadem (instrumental singular)
gadami (instrumental plural)
gadzie (locative singular)
gadach (locative plural)
gadzie (singular vocative)
gady (plural vocative)


gad

gad (nominative singular)
gady (nominative plural)
gada (genitive singular)
gadów (genitive plural)
gadowi (dative singular)
gadom (dative plural)
gada (accusative singular)
gadów (accusative plural)
gadem (instrumental singular)
gadami (instrumental plural)
gadzie (locative singular)
gadach (locative plural)
gadzie (singular vocative)
gady (plural vocative)


gad

gad (nominative singular)
gadō (nominative plural)
gadōs (nominative plural)
gad (accusative singular)
gadā (accusative plural)
gadas (genitive singular)
gadō (genitive plural)
gadē (dative singular)
gadum (dative plural)
gadu (instrumental singular)
gadum (instrumental plural)

Old English: gæd

From Proto-Germanic *gadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-.


gad

Unknown. Possibly from gaud (“a bar of iron; a rod”). Alternatively, compare Icelandic gaddr (“packed snow”). Attested from the 19th century.


gad

a ball of wood or cork used to play shinty

Unknown. Attested from the 20th century. Compare caddle, cad (“stones used to play the game of cherry pit”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic gad (“a twig, stick”).


gad

Bruidhinn nas labhaire, chan eil mi gad chluinntinn ceart.


gad

gad m (genitive singular gaid, plural gaid or gadan)

gaid (genitive singular)
gaid (plural)
gadan (plural)

From Old Irish gat, from Proto-Celtic *gazdo-, from late Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰasto- or *ǵʰasdʰo- (“branch ~ spear, sharp spine”), a root also connected to Proto-Germanic *gazdaz (“spike”), Latin hasta (“spear”).


gad

gad (mutation mutation-radical)
ghad (lenition mutation)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


gad

gȁd (canonical masculine)
га̏д (Cyrillic)
gad (nominative singular)
gadovi (nominative plural)
gada (genitive singular)
gadova (genitive plural)
gadu (dative singular)
gadovima (dative plural)
gada (accusative singular)
gadove (accusative plural)
gade (singular vocative)
gadovi (plural vocative)
gadu (locative singular)
gadovima (locative plural)
gadom (instrumental singular)
gadovima (instrumental plural)


gad

gad (nominative singular)
gadad (nominative plural)
gadan (accusative singular)
gadad (accusative plural)
gadan (genitive singular)
gadoiden (genitive plural)
gadad (partitive singular)
gadoid (partitive plural)
gadan (essive-instructive singular)
gadoin (essive-instructive plural)
gadaks (singular translative)
gadoikš (plural translative)
gadas (inessive singular)
gadoiš (inessive plural)
gadaspäi (elative singular)
gadoišpäi (elative plural)
gadaha (illative singular)
gadoihe (illative plural)
gadal (adessive singular)
gadoil (adessive plural)
gadalpäi (ablative singular)
gadoilpäi (ablative plural)
gadale (allative singular)
gadoile (allative plural)
gadata (abessive singular)
gadoita (abessive plural)
gadanke (comitative singular)
gadoidenke (comitative plural)
gadadme (prolative singular)
gadoidme (plural prolative)
gadanno (approximative approximative-i singular)
gadoidenno (approximative approximative-i plural)
gadannoks (approximative approximative-ii singular)
gadoidennoks (approximative approximative-ii plural)
gadannopäi (egressive singular)
gadoidennopäi (egressive plural)
gadahasai (singular terminative terminative-i)
gadoihesai (plural terminative terminative-i)
gadalesai (singular terminative terminative-ii)
gadoilesai (plural terminative terminative-ii)
gadassai (singular terminative terminative-iii)
gadahapäi (additive additive-i singular)
gadoihepäi (additive additive-i plural)
gadalepäi (additive additive-ii singular)
gadoilepäi (additive additive-ii plural)


gad

gads (nominative plural)
gad (nominative singular)
gads (nominative plural)
gada (genitive singular)
gadas (genitive plural)
gade (dative singular)
gades (dative plural)
gadi (accusative singular)
gadis (accusative plural)
o gad! (singular vocative)
o gads! (plural vocative)
gadu (predicative singular)
gadus (plural predicative)


gad

cad (mutation mutation-radical)
gad (mutation mutation-soft)
nghad (mutation mutation-nasal)
chad (mutation mutation-aspirate)


gad

(literary) second-person singular imperative of gadael

gad (mutation mutation-radical)
ad (mutation mutation-soft)
ngad (mutation mutation-nasal)


gad

cedar or juniper tree, especially Juniperus deppeana.