gad

Meanings

Verb

• To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.

Noun

• One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
• A greedy and/or stupid person.
• 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.
• A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.
• A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.
• A metal bar.
• An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds.
• A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.

Origin

• Taboo deformation of God.
• From Middle English gadden.
• From Middle English gade, from Old English gada, from Proto-West Germanic *gadō, from Proto-Germanic *gadô, *gagadô, related to Proto-West Germanic *gaduling. Cognate with Dutch gade, German Gatte. See also gadling.
• From Middle English gad, gadde, borrowed from Old Norse gaddr, from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz.