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gaddishness

gaddishness noun: quality of being gaddish.

Noun

gaddishness (uncountable)

  1. (nonce-word) Quality of being gaddish.
    • Elders, be such in grave and pious carriage, whatsoever be your years; for young men may be so, and, possibly, gray hairs may have nothing under them but gaddishness and folly many years old, habituated and inveterate ungodliness!1693-1694, Robert Leighton, A Practical Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Peter

Origin of gaddishness

From gaddish + -ness.

Questions about gaddishness

What does gaddishness mean?
Gaddishness means quality of being gaddish.
What part of speech is gaddishness?
Gaddishness is a noun.

Words near gaddishness in the dictionary

  1. gadding cars
  2. gaddingly
  3. gaddings
  4. gaddis
  5. Gaddises
  6. gaddishness
  7. Gadds
  8. Gaddy
  9. Gaddys
  10. gade
  11. Gadea

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