gad

FREQ #32148

vi. 闲逛, 游荡, 蔓延 vt. 用棒赶 n. 游荡, 錾, 尖头棒 interj. 哎哟, 天哪

发音

其它 /ɡæd/

词形变化

gads 复数 gadded gaddest gaddeth gadding gads 三单 gads gadding 现在分词 gadded 过去式 gadded 过去分词

别名

ged gade

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One who roams about idly; a gadabout.

  2. 1.

    A greedy and/or stupid person.

    苏格兰 贬义

    Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ

  3. 1.

    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.

    英国 美国 方言

    Ist yoakes and bowes and gad and yoaksticks there?

  4. 2.

    A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.

    英国 美国 方言
  5. 3.

    A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock; a pick.

    商务 采矿
  6. 4.

    A metal bar.

    废旧
  7. 5.

    An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds.

    过时 工程
  8. 6.

    A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.

v.
  1. 1.

    To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.

    不及物

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

  2. 2.

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

interj.
  1. 1.

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

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词源

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

来源:wiktionary