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gad

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gad1

▶verb (gads, gadding, gadded) (gad about/around) informal go from place to place in the pursuit of pleasure.

– origin ME: back-form. from obs. gadling ‘wanderer, vagabond’, (earlier) ‘companion’, of Gmc origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gad2 (also by gad)

▶exclamation archaic expressing surprise or emphatic assertion.

– origin C15: euphemistic alt. of God.

'gad' also found in these Oxford entries:

begad - gadfly - goad - patrol

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"Ye gad."
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