gad

Plural: gads

Noun

• an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months
• a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward
• One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
• A greedy and/or stupid person.
• 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.
• A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.
• A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.
• A metal bar.
• An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds.
• A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.

Verb

• wander aimlessly in search of pleasure
• To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
• To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.
• GADDED, GADDING, GADS to roam about restlessly

Intj

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

Examples

• "Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ"

Synonyms

anxiety reaction, gallivant, generalized anxiety disorder, jazz around, spur, gadling, spike

Related Words

Baal-gad