gadding

Verb

gad (third-person singular simple present gads, present participle gadding, simple past and past participle gadded)

1. (intransitive) To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
   • This, I suppose, is the virgin who abideth still in the house with you. She is not given, I hope, to gadding overmuch, nor to vain and foolish decorations of her person with ear-rings and finger-rings, and crisping-pins: for such are unprofitable, yea, abominable.1852, Alice Cary, Clovernook ....

   Synonyms:

   gallivant

2. To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.

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