gad

An exclamation roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake.

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.

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.

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.

So when he saw King Arthur he said: "Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?"

To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.

One who roams about idly; a gadabout.