gad
verb (used without object)
to move restlessly or aimlessly from one place to another.
gadder
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a word derived from
gad.
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
Den dey all gadder in de circle an' fo' dey git dey supply, dey got ta do de pigeon wing.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 by Work Projects Administration
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
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 Charles Mackay
“The jehu of the rubber-neck wagon,” reports a gadder from Loz Onglaze, “called out: ‘We are now in the center of the old aristocratic center.
From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor
