gad
名词 n.
动词 v.
感叹词 intj.
英文释义
名词 n.
- One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
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A greedy and/or stupid person.
— Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ
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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.
— Ist yoakes and bowes and gad and yoaksticks there?
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A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.
— And we'll prepare our limber gads, Lang lines, and braw brass wheels;
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A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock; a pick.
— I will go get a leaf of brass, / And with a gad of steel will write these words.
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A metal bar.
— they sette uppon hym and drew oute their swerdys to have slayne hym – but there wolde no swerde byghte on hym more than uppon a gadde of steele, for the Hyghe Lorde which he served, He hym preserved.
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An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds.
— Twice a day a 'gad' of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1 cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours.
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A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
— Sometimes we see the knuckles ornamented with gads or gadlings.
动词 v.
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To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
— This, I suppose, is the virgin who abideth still in the house with you. She is not given, I hope, to gadding overmuch, nor to vain and foolish decorations of her person with ear-rings and finger-rings, and crisping-pins: for such are unprofitable, yea, abominable.
- To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.
感叹词 intj.
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An exclamation roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake.
— The clasp slips free (gad, what lush kazooms) and she even helps him pull off the blouse that is now cuffing her at the elbows.
词源
词源 1
Euphemistic alteration of God.
词源 2
From Middle English gadden (“to hurry, to rush about”), of obscure origin.
词源 3
From Middle English gade (“a fool, simpleton, rascal, scoundrel; bastard”), from Old English *gada (“fellow, companion, comrade, associate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadō, from Proto-Germanic *gadô, *gagadô (“companion, associate”), related to Proto-West Germanic *gaduling (“kinsman”). Cognate with Dutch gade (“spouse”), German Gatte (“male spouse, husband”). See also gadling.
词源 4
From Middle English gad, gadde, borrowed from Old Norse gaddr (“goad, spike”), from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz (“spike, rod, stake”). Doublet of goad and yard.
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