gad

Meanings

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

1. To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
2. To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.

1. One who roams about idly; a gadabout.

1. A greedy and/or stupid person.

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.
2. A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.
3. A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock; a pick.
4. A metal bar.
5. An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds.
6. A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.

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.
4. A surname.

1. Acronym of generalized anxiety disorder.

Etymology

Euphemistic alteration of God.