gad

The humor doesn’t so much pop as gad about.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2022

Bernice King’s father gad called Vivian “the greatest preacher who ever lived,” a fierce and influential advocate for social justice.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2021

The pair gad from location to location with a cheery boisterousness.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2013

But do you remember how that face looked in 1992, when the supermodel, shown below, was in her 20s, on the gad at the Park Avenue Armory for a Versace gala, aglitter in ruby sequins?

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2012

"By gad, I'll have my lawyers on to her for this! I'll make her pay through the nose!"

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

The Americas with Simon Reeve is an amiable travelogue in which a dishy documentarian gads about the US.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2019

When the Senate is not sitting, he gads about the country publicizing golf tournaments on public links.

From Time Magazine Archive

She got disgusted and said, Ye gads, like ABC gum, already been chewed.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Scott saw the real meaning of this nonsense, and read - With springalds, stones, and gads o' airn.

From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Andrew Lang

Yet when he taught school he had a big bundle of "gads" as he called them and he hid them in the stove pipe, where the boys failed to find them.

From My Boyhood by John Burroughs

One was back in the city, on the evening of a reporter’s visit, to be followed the next day by a conference where he gadded about with John Legend.

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2015

So while Johann I gadded about, Johann II composed and practiced the organ in church.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Ogletree even primped her boy Georgie, whom she’d gadded up in a green velvet Little Lord Fauntleroy suit.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

John came home early, Meg gadded no more, and that greatcoat was put on in the morning by a very happy husband, and taken off at night by a most devoted little wife.

From Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

If she had had her own way, she would have gadded about at watering-places all the year round.

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

Not exactly the boys of 1888, those 22 Lions pioneers who spent eight months gadding about New Zealand and Australia playing 35 games, but a fair old trip none the less.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025

It has been a good twenty-five years since they would have been arrested, or shot, just for gadding about in joy on the river, as they are now.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2015

The other half of the year, when we’re not gadding about, Cosima cooks for us at her place.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2015

Hockney, an Englishman who loves opera and long designed opera sets, is reading more and gadding about less.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2015

“Hold your tongue, you disrespectful old bird! And, Jo, you’d better go at once. It isn’t proper to be gadding about so late with a rattlepated boy like...”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott