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verbgadded, gads, gaddingɡadɡæd [no object]informal Go from place to place in the pursuit of pleasure. 〈非正式〉闲逛，游荡，找乐子 he had heard that I was gadding about with an airline stewardess 他曾听到关于我的闲话，说我和一位空姐四处寻欢作乐。 Example sentencesExamples - Our women it seems have left their homes on some pretence of Bacchic worship, and are now gadding about on the wooded mountain slopes, dancing in honour of this upstart god, Dionysus
- Choosing the hottest weekend of the year to go gadding about in a tin metal box (aka car without air-conditioning up and down the nation's motorway system) probably wasn't our greatest idea ever.
- They developed modern mathematics, glorious architecture and navigated the world when St Patrick was gadding about in a leather coracle.
- While our Prime Minister is gadding around the globe, the British railway system is near breakdown with 1970s-style strikes crippling many routes and disrupting commuters.
- Then we could give whichever Cheeky Girl he's gadding about with to James and watch the sparks fly…
- It is very exciting, but I am here all alone whilst she gads around talking to men with beards.
- Although Geminian influences still have you gadding all about like trout, this week also offers in-there as well as out-there experiences.
- They complain that the MP ought to be looking after the drains and other local problems of his east London constituents rather than gadding about on the box.
- In Europe, Anderson gadded about the Mediterranean in his steam-powered yacht.
- Not least of those benefits - at least from my point of view, stuck back in Nottingham while K gadded about the globe - were the enormous number of Air Miles which K clocked up, and which we eagerly converted to free flights and posh hotel rooms.
- Later he gadded about Europe until the revolutionary storm struck in Russia, carrying him away to the Ukraine where he ended up in the post of representative of the Soviet People's Commissariat.
- And while you're gadding about, why not visit the biblical-sounding Burning Mountain - which actually is burning, and has been for about a thousand years, ever since an underground coal seam caught fire.
- Take the classic image of a sports car driver, who is endlessly depicted in films and advertisements as some bright young thing glamorously gadding about with breeze-raked hair.
- Now Cleo gads about the castle but Francie slows down.
- There, she gadded about in the snow in a pricey fur coat and cat's eye glasses, even as Ah Ma tut-tutted.
- I will be circumnavigating the Globe in January and early February doing some research for a book and also, if truth be known, gadding about.
- After her difficult pregnancy she thought it odd that I was gadding about catching international planes so late into my own.
- If the woman has not been careful but has gadded about, neglecting her house and belittling her husband, they shall throw that woman into the water.
- He was holed up in Israel making a documentary about the siege of Bethlehem, and there's me on the front pages, gadding about town with someone else's fella.
- With Americans gadding around in high-riding 4WD off-roaders, Puerto Santo Tomás hardly qualifies as remote: If we could make it in our car, it isn't remotely remote.
Synonyms gallivant, jaunt around, flit around, run around, travel around, roam (around) wander, rove, ramble, traipse, meander, stray
Phrasesarchaic On the move. 〈古〉游荡着，闲荡着 Mrs Charles's nursery maid is alway upon the gad Example sentencesExamples - As Gloucester says, ‘All this done upon the gad,’ which means in the instant.
OriginLate Middle English: back-formation from obsolete gadling 'wanderer, vagabond', (earlier) 'companion', of Germanic origin. Gad as in gad about was probably formed from obsolete gadling which first meant ‘companion’ but later had the meaning ‘wanderer, vagabond’. The origin is Germanic. Another view is that it is from obsolete gad meaning ‘rush about like an animal stung by gad-flies’, which is a possibility, but some of the evidence does not support this theory.
Rhymesad, add, Allahabad, bad, Baghdad, bedad, begad, cad, Chad, clad, dad, egad, fad, forbade, glad, grad, had, lad, mad, pad, plaid, rad, Riyadh, sad, scad, shad, Strad, tad, trad exclamationɡad archaic An expression of surprise or emphatic assertion. 〈古〉哎哟，天哪（用于表示吃惊或加强语气） By Gad! You look young for a doctor! Example sentencesExamples - Click on one of the ‘recent posts on PDC Bloggers’ and by gad sir, you get straight through to a perfectly respectable article in the aforementioned perfectly respectable publication.
- The host's pretentious huffiness assures you that the blindfolded lady holding the scales is not only implacable and inescapable but - by gad, sir!
- [One neighbor] expressed the disgust of the others when he remarked, ‘Well, I did play marbles when I was a kid, but by gad this is the first time I've seen men play!’
OriginLate 15th century: euphemistic alteration of God. proper nounɡad 1(in the Bible) a Hebrew patriarch, son of Jacob and Zilpah. - 1.1 The tribe of Israel traditionally descended from Gad.
noun mass noun people can suffer from GAD and depression at the same time short for generalized anxiety disorder
verbɡædɡad [no object]informal Go around from one place to another, in the pursuit of pleasure or entertainment. 〈非正式〉闲逛，游荡，找乐子 help out around the house and not be gadding about the countryside Example sentencesExamples - Not least of those benefits - at least from my point of view, stuck back in Nottingham while K gadded about the globe - were the enormous number of Air Miles which K clocked up, and which we eagerly converted to free flights and posh hotel rooms.
- Choosing the hottest weekend of the year to go gadding about in a tin metal box (aka car without air-conditioning up and down the nation's motorway system) probably wasn't our greatest idea ever.
- After her difficult pregnancy she thought it odd that I was gadding about catching international planes so late into my own.
- Our women it seems have left their homes on some pretence of Bacchic worship, and are now gadding about on the wooded mountain slopes, dancing in honour of this upstart god, Dionysus
- They developed modern mathematics, glorious architecture and navigated the world when St Patrick was gadding about in a leather coracle.
- With Americans gadding around in high-riding 4WD off-roaders, Puerto Santo Tomás hardly qualifies as remote: If we could make it in our car, it isn't remotely remote.
- While our Prime Minister is gadding around the globe, the British railway system is near breakdown with 1970s-style strikes crippling many routes and disrupting commuters.
- He was holed up in Israel making a documentary about the siege of Bethlehem, and there's me on the front pages, gadding about town with someone else's fella.
- Now Cleo gads about the castle but Francie slows down.
- If the woman has not been careful but has gadded about, neglecting her house and belittling her husband, they shall throw that woman into the water.
- They complain that the MP ought to be looking after the drains and other local problems of his east London constituents rather than gadding about on the box.
- In Europe, Anderson gadded about the Mediterranean in his steam-powered yacht.
- There, she gadded about in the snow in a pricey fur coat and cat's eye glasses, even as Ah Ma tut-tutted.
- I will be circumnavigating the Globe in January and early February doing some research for a book and also, if truth be known, gadding about.
- Take the classic image of a sports car driver, who is endlessly depicted in films and advertisements as some bright young thing glamorously gadding about with breeze-raked hair.
- Then we could give whichever Cheeky Girl he's gadding about with to James and watch the sparks fly…
- Although Geminian influences still have you gadding all about like trout, this week also offers in-there as well as out-there experiences.
- It is very exciting, but I am here all alone whilst she gads around talking to men with beards.
- Later he gadded about Europe until the revolutionary storm struck in Russia, carrying him away to the Ukraine where he ended up in the post of representative of the Soviet People's Commissariat.
- And while you're gadding about, why not visit the biblical-sounding Burning Mountain - which actually is burning, and has been for about a thousand years, ever since an underground coal seam caught fire.
Synonyms gallivant, jaunt around, flit around, run around, travel around, roam, roam around
OriginLate Middle English: back-formation from obsolete gadling ‘wanderer, vagabond’, (earlier) ‘companion’, of Germanic origin. proper nounɡadɡæd 1(in the Bible) a Hebrew patriarch, son of Jacob and Zilpah (Gen. 30:9–11). - 1.1 The tribe of Israel traditionally descended from Gad.
exclamationɡædɡad archaic An expression of surprise or emphatic assertion. 〈古〉哎哟，天哪（用于表示吃惊或加强语气） By Gad! You look young for a doctor! Example sentencesExamples - [One neighbor] expressed the disgust of the others when he remarked, ‘Well, I did play marbles when I was a kid, but by gad this is the first time I've seen men play!’
- The host's pretentious huffiness assures you that the blindfolded lady holding the scales is not only implacable and inescapable but - by gad, sir!
- Click on one of the ‘recent posts on PDC Bloggers’ and by gad sir, you get straight through to a perfectly respectable article in the aforementioned perfectly respectable publication.
OriginLate 15th century: euphemistic alteration of God. noun people can suffer from GAD and depression at the same time short for generalized anxiety disorder
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