Usually means: Wandered about without specific purpose.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. gadded: Merriam-Webster
  2. gadded: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gadded: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gadded: Vocabulary.com
  5. gadded: Wordnik
  6. gadded: Wiktionary
  7. Gadded, gadded: Dictionary.com
  8. Gadded: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Gadded: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. gadded: FreeDictionary.org
  11. gadded: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gadded: Legal dictionary

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  1. gadded: Medical dictionary

(Note: See gad as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (GAD)

verb:  (intransitive) To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
verb:  (of cattle) To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.
noun:  One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
noun:  (Northern England, Scotland, derogatory) A greedy and/or stupid person.
noun:  (especially UK, US, dialect) 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.
noun:  (UK, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.
noun:  (especially mining) A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.
noun:  (obsolete) A metal bar.
noun:  (dated, metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds.
noun:  A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
noun:  (biblical) The seventh son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.
noun:  One of the Israelite tribes mentioned in the Torah, descended from Gad.
noun:  A male given name from Hebrew.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Acronym of generalized anxiety disorder. [An anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry which may interfere with daily functioning.]
▸ Also see gad


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