gadder
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a word derived from
gad.
gadverb (used without object)to move restlessly or aimlessly from one place to another.
Example Sentences
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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
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The gadder contrib who uses the Gideon Bible to hold the shaving mirror at the right angle is properly rebuked by sundry readers.
From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor
Speaking again of “experience essential but not necessary,” it was a gadder who observed to a fellow traveler in the smoker: “It is not only customary, but we have been doing it right along.”
From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor
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 D. A. Helm
Boy, you come sneakin' round to-morrow night when dat yeh stew'd done gone to bed, an' Ah'll jest gadder you up a piece of pie f'om Cap'n's table—yass, sah!
From The Mutineers by Charles Boardman Hawes