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Gad   /gæd/   Listen
Gad

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: anxiety reaction, generalized anxiety disorder.
2.
A sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward.  Synonym: spur.
verb
(past & past part. gadded; pres. part. gadding)
1.
Wander aimlessly in search of pleasure.  Synonyms: gallivant, jazz around.






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"Gad" Quotes from Famous Books



... said he. Then he remembered something. "Gad!" he exclaimed. "I had forgot the parson. I'll have him gaoled! I'll have him hanged if the law will help me. Come ...
— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini

... "By gad, I'll make ye open up!" cried the cross-eyed knave, losing his temper. He was about to strike Hugh again, when the other man, still holding the lad in a steel-trap grip, pushed ...
— The Boy Scouts on Picket Duty • Robert Shaler

... There is never a Law on the Cocos Keys to hold a white man in, But we do not steal the niggers' meal, for that is a nigger's sin. Must he have his Law as a quid to chaw, or laid in brass on his wheel? Does he steal with tears when he buccaneers? 'Fore Gad, then, why does he steal?" The skipper bit on a deep-sea word, and the word it was not sweet, For he could see the Captains Three had signalled to the Fleet. But three and two, in white and blue, the whimpering flags began: — "We have ...
— Verses 1889-1896 • Rudyard Kipling

... a row? When he's taking an unfair advantage of me by using this infernal Magic?—which is unlawful, by Gad, don't you forget that! Why shouldn't I denounce ...
— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey

... make a rod for their own tails, as Candaules did to Gyges in [6279]Herodotus, commend his wife's beauty himself, and besides would needs have him see her naked. Whilst they give their wives too much liberty to gad abroad, and bountiful allowance, they are accessory to their own miseries; animae uxorum pessime olent, as Plautus jibes, they have deformed souls, and by their painting and colours procure odium mariti, their husband's hate, especially,—[6280] cum misere viscantur labra ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior


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