gad
/ɡæd/ verb C2- To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
- To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.
He/she/it gads · Past gadded · Past participle gadded · -ing form gadding
Verb forms
- Base form
- gad
- He/she/it
- gads
- Past
- gadded
- Past participle
- gadded
- -ing form
- gadding
From the library
At the station he captured Miss Lantry out of the gadding mob at eight thirty-two.
But you’re not going to begin gadding about to concerts and staying out all hours of the night.
It makes them vain and forward and fond of gadding.”
“She’s gadding off somewhere with Diana, writing stories or practicing dialogues or some such tomfoolery, and never thinking once about the time or her duties.
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