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

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

Brazil forward Alexandre Pato would rather play for Milan than gad about with England's Brave John Terry at Chelsea.

From The Guardian ● May 11, 2010

In the pasture field the cows were on the gad, and could be seen galloping about with their tails in the air, which made Sir Ector angry.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

Dot wouldn't do for me, for mine fader would be looking for me wid two big gads to him—" "Helloa!

From The Lost Trail by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Cedar shovels, mauls, copper gads or wedges, charcoal, and ashes were discovered, over which “primeval” forest trees had grown to full size.

From Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. (John Denison) Baldwin

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

How do I know where Miss Goodson has gadded off to?

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 by Various

"I gadded all over London trying," said the Doctor, who narrated his experiences.

From The Old Blood by Frederick Palmer

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