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agad

agad is the obsolete form of egad.

Meaning of egad

Interjection

  1. (dated) A mild exclamation of contempt, surprise, outrage, etc.
    • O here a' comes—Ah my Hector of Troy, vvelcome my Bully, my Back; agad my heart has gone a pit pat for thee.1693, Will[iam] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 11

Questions about agad

What is agad the obsolete form of?
Agad is the obsolete form of egad.

Words near agad in the dictionary

  1. AGABs
  2. Agabus
  3. agacerie
  4. agaceries
  5. Agaces
  6. agad
  7. Agadah
  8. Agade
  9. Agadir
  10. Agadoo dance
  11. Agadoo dances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: agad (page history and authors); egad (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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