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And the play offers effective social comedy through such types as a tart matriarch or a hen-brained gadder, or through the assorted disturbances caused by the returning beau.

From Time Magazine Archive

De hadzin e Birengere miro lowe, dale mangawa me len de bidschin jon mire lowe gadder o foro Naile abbi Bidschebasger wurtum sikk. 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Not that Kate was a gadder about or a gossip, but she was sleeveless, dawdling, and dreamy, and always behindhand.

From True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best by Helm, D. A.

In the meanwhile," says he, "the priestes within England had provided them a false and counterfeated prophet, called Peter Wakefielde, a Yorkshire man, who was an hermite, an idle gadder about, and a pratlyng marchant.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Mackay, Charles

"You can try de 'speriment, if you please," said Primus, cooly, "and when dey is knock out, I advise you to gadder dem up for you own use."

From The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times by Adams, John Turvill