gad
suomi-englanti sanakirjagad englannista suomeksi
huvitella, käydä ulkona huvittelemassa
kannus
Substantiivi
Verbi
gad englanniksi
GAD
(ngd)
(quote-book)| title=The House of Mirth| passage=That's the trouble — it was too easy for you — you got reckless — thought you could turn me inside out, and chuck me in the gutter like an empty purse. But, by gad, that ain't playing fair: that's dodging the rules of the game.
To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
(syn)
{{quote-text|en|year=1852|author=Alice Cary|title=Clovernook ....|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w
1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Fourth, page 123
- So when he saw King Arthur he said: "Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?"
(RQ:Melville Billy Budd)
(RQ:Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing)
To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the fly.
A greedy and/or stupid person.
(ux)
{{quote-text|en|year=1913|author=George Gordon|title=The Auld Clay Biggin
A goad, a sharp-pointed rod for driving cattle, horses, etc, or one with a whip or thong on the end for the same purpose.
(hyponyms)
1684, Meriton, ''Praise Ale'', l. 100, in 1851, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, ''The Yorkshire Anthology: A Collection of Ancient and Modern Ballads, Poems and Songs, Relating to the County of Yorkshire'', page 71:
- Ist yoakes and bowes and gad and yoaksticks there?
(quote-journal)
{{quote-journal|en|date=December 17 1885|url=http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/hfdtroit.html|journal=Detroit Free Press
{{quote-text|en|year=1888|chapter=Robin Spraggon's Auld Grey Mare|title=The Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend|page=171
{{quote-journal|en|year=1908|author=Folklore Society (Great Britain)|journal=Publications|page=288
{{quote-text|en|year=1836|title=A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers|page=4
{{quote-book|en|year=1876|author=Armstrong|title=Wanny Blossoms|page=33
{{quote-text|en|year=1879|author=William Henderson; Folklore Society (Great Britain)|title=Notes on the Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders
{{quote-book|en|year=1896|author=Proudlock|title=Borderland Muse|page=268
A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.
(RQ:Shakespeare Titus Andronicus)
{{quote-text|en|year=2006|author=Thomas Pynchon|title=Against the Day|page=327|publisher=Vintage|year_published=2007
A metal bar.
{{quote-text|en|year=1485|author=Thomas Malory|title=Le Morte d'Arthur|section=Book XV
(RQ:Moxon Mechanick Exercises) some in bars and some in gads.
{{quote-text|en|year=1836|author=Walter Scott|title=Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer: With the Author's Last Notes and Additions|page=372
An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds.
{{quote-text|en|year=1957|author=H.R. Schubert|title=History of the British Iron and Steel Industry|page=146
{{quote-text|en|year=1840|author=Charles Henry Hartshorne|title=An Endeavor to Classify the Sepulchral Remains in Northamptonshire, Or, a Discourse on Funeral Monuments in that County: Delivered Before the Members of the Religious and Useful Knowledge Society, at Northampton|page=35
{{quote-text|en|year=1842|author=Ecclesiological Society|title=Illustrations of Monumental Brasses ...|page=70
{{quote-text|en|year=1858|author=Edward Cave|title=The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer: Volume the first -fifth, for the year 1731 -1735 ...|page=215
{{quote-text|en|year=1992|author=Sir Guy Francis Laking|title=A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries|page=214
(infl of)
(obsolete spelling of)
(alternative form of)
reptile (gl)
scoundrel (gl)
you (qualifier)
to buy
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(inflection of)