gad

intj

Etymology: Euphemistic alteration of God.

1. 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.”

name

Etymology: Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew גָּד (gad), a son of Jacob.

1. The seventh son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.
2. One of the Israelite tribes mentioned in the Torah, descended from Gad.
3. A male given name from Hebrew.

   ““We’ve got civilizational suicidal empathy going on,” Musk said, borrowing the term from Gad Saad, a Canadian scholar who is also a frequent Rogan host.”

4. A surname.

noun

1. Acronym of generalized anxiety disorder.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English gadden (“to hurry, to rush about”), of obscure origin.

1. 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?"”

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