English-Thai Dictionary

gad

N การเที่ยว เตร็ดเตร่ ไป วันๆ  wander kan-tiao-tred-tre-pai-wan-wan

 

gad

N คน เร่ร่อน  คนหลักลอย  คนพเนจร  wanderer ko-rea-ron

 

gad

VI ร่อนเร่ ไป ไม่มีจุดหมาย  roam wander dirft ron-re-pai-mai-me-jud-mai

 

gad

VI เที่ยว เตร็ดเตร่  พเนจร  ร่อนเร่ ไป ทั่ว  rove wander tiao-tred-tre

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GAD

n. 1. A wedge or ingot of steel.
2. A style or graver.
3. A punch of iron with a wooden handle, used by miners.

 

GAD

v.i. 1. To walk about; to rove or ramble idly or without any fixed purpose.
Give the water no passage, neither a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad.
2. To ramble in growth; as the gadding vine.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GAD

Gad, n. Etym: [OE. gad, Icel. gaddr goad, sting; akin to Sw. gadd sting, Goth. gazds, G. gerte switch. See Yard a measure. ]

 

1. The point of a spear, or an arrowhead.

 

2. A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc. I will go get a leaf of brass, And with a gad of steel will write these words. Shak.

 

3. A sharp-pointed rod; a goad.

 

4. A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling. Fairholt.

 

5. A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel. [Obs. ] Flemish steel. .. some in bars and some in gads. Moxon.

 

6. A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with. [Prov. Eng. Local, U.S.] Halliwell. Bartlett. Upon the gad, upon the spur of the moment; hastily. [Obs. ] "All this done upon the gad! " Shak.

 

GAD

Gad, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gadded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gadding. ] Etym: [Prob. fr. gad, n., and orig. meaning to drive about. ]

 

Defn: To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled. "The gadding vine. " Milton. Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way Jer. ii. 36.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

Gad

Gad 1 |gad ɡæd | (in the Bible ) a Hebrew patriarch, son of Jacob and Zilpah (Gen. 30:9 –11 ). • the tribe of Israel traditionally descended from Gad.

 

Gad

Gad 2 |gad gæd | ▶exclam. used to express dismay or surprise. ORIGIN late 15th cent.: euphemistic alteration of God .

 

gad

gad |gad ɡæd | ▶verb ( gads, gadding , gadded ) [ no obj. ] informal go around from one place to another, in the pursuit of pleasure or entertainment: help out around the house and not be gadding about the countryside. ORIGIN late Middle English: back-formation from obsolete gadling ‘wanderer, vagabond, ’ (earlier ) ‘companion, ’ of Germanic origin.

 

gad

gad 2 |gad | ▶exclamation archaic an expression of surprise or emphatic assertion: By gad! You look young for a doctor! ORIGIN late 15th cent.: euphemistic alteration of God .

 

Oxford Dictionary

Gad

Gad 1 |gad | (in the Bible ) a Hebrew patriarch, son of Jacob and Zilpah. • the tribe of Israel traditionally descended from Gad.

 

Gad

Gad 2 |gad gæd | ▶exclam. used to express dismay or surprise. ORIGIN late 15th cent.: euphemistic alteration of God .

 

gad

gad 1 |gad | ▶verb ( gads, gadding, gadded ) [ no obj. ] informal go from place to place in the pursuit of pleasure: he had heard that I was gadding about with an airline stewardess. PHRASES on (or upon ) the gad archaic on the move. ORIGIN late Middle English: back-formation from obsolete gadling ‘wanderer, vagabond ’, (earlier ) ‘companion ’, of Germanic origin.

 

gad

gad 2 |gad | ▶exclamation archaic an expression of surprise or emphatic assertion: By gad! You look young for a doctor! ORIGIN late 15th cent.: euphemistic alteration of God .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

gad

gad verb informal she's been gadding about in Europe: gallivant about, traipse around, flit around, run around, travel around, roam (about /around ).

 

Oxford Thesaurus

gad

gad verb she looked worn out and must have been gadding about too much: gallivant, jaunt around, flit around, run around, travel around, roam (around ); wander, rove, ramble, traipse, meander, stray.

 

Duden Dictionary

Gad

Gad Eigenname |G a d |biblischer männlicher Eigenname

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

gad

gad 1 /ɡæd /動詞 ～s ; ～ded ; ～ding 自動詞 ｟主に英 くだけて ｠(楽しみを求めて )ほっつき歩く, うろつき回る (about, around, out ).名詞 〖the ～〗当てもなくうろつくこと ▸ on the gad ほっつき歩いて

 

gad

gad 2 名詞 C 1 (家畜を追う )突き棒 .2 〘鉱 〙たがね 〘岩や石炭などを砕く炭鉱工具 〙.

 

gad

gad 3 Gad 間投詞 ｟古 ｠ちぇっ, ちくしょう, あれ (!驚きなどを表す; Godの婉曲表現 ) ▸ by gad あれ, ちぇっ