gaddingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈɡadɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈɡædɪŋ/

Forms: see gad v.¹ and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: gad v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < gad v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action of gad v.¹ 1; (originally) idle wandering or roaming; (later usually) socializing or travelling for pleasure, gallivanting. Also in plural: jaunts; travels.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wandering idly

roilinga1398

roitinga1450

gadding1533

vaguing1596

expatiation1640

strolling1717

gallivanting1826

streeling1841

traiking1894

stooging1944

swanning1951

1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Iohan Iohan sig. A.i But she wyll go a gaddynge very myche Lyke an Anthony pyg.

?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 108 b Gapynges, gaddynges, ydoll sensynges.

1663 S. Pepys Diary 1 Jan. (1971) IV. 2 Willing to make an end of my gaddings and to set to my business.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 196 Neither pride, debauchery, nor a love of gadding.

1840 R. Bremner Excursions Denmark II. 375 During this gadding season.

1865 M. E. Braddon Sir Jasper I. vii. 164 ‘No gadding after dark, Doll,’ he said in a warning voice.

1959 Tri-state Defender (Memphis, Tennessee) 1 Aug. 10 A newsy letter..tells of her gaddings in Ohio.

2013 Timaru (N.Z.) Herald (Nexis) 13 Dec. (Features section) 9 I've been doing a spot of gadding lately. I think the holiday mode is kicking in already.

2. Rushing about or frenzied leaping of a bovine animal, caused by excessive heat or (now typically) the presence of gadflies. Cf. gad v.¹ 3.

ΚΠ

1639 G. Plattes Discov. Infinite Treasure iii. 11 The Cattle..would destroy more with their feet, then they eat with their mouthes, by their gadding.

1688 J. Clayton Let. 12 May in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1693) 17 793 The most of the Cattle will set on gadding, and run..to the River to drink the Salt Water.

1784 J. Twamley Dairying Exemplified 22 Cows on up-lands, perhaps, scorched with heat, and not having the nourishing Stream to go to, or shade to protect them from the Sun, caused their gadding.

1817 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire III. 22 Soiling or Summer stall-feeding of Cattle..preventing gadding.

1860 Times 8 Mar. 12/3 It [sc. the wildness of the cattle] was attributable only to their gadding and to the flies which infested them.

1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xvii. 434 These flies are not commonly observed in the field, but the reaction of cattle to their presence is frequently marked by ‘gadding’ or stampeding.

1995 Farmers Weekly 31 Mar. 39/2 Farmers should also watch for signs of gadding in their cattle through the summer months.

2003 Insects & Spiders of World (Marshall Cavendish Corporation) X. 584/3 Cattle get so stressed by gadding that they lose weight and produce less milk.

Compounds

With adverbs, forming compound verbal nouns corresponding to phrasal verbs at gad v.¹

gadding about n.

ΚΠ

1562 J. Veron Stronge Battery Inuoc. Saintes f. 17 We haue no neede of many aduocates before God, neyther of muche gaddyng about, for to flatter and speake fayre vnto other.

1655 R. Robinson Safe Conduct 39 Without this guidance wandring beleevers, by their sinful gaddings about would lose themselves.

1722 W. Willymott tr. Thomas à Kempis Of Imitation of Christ Introd. 12 That he fly unnecessary conversation, idle gadding about, news and reports, and give himself to meditation.

1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. viii. 183 A gadding-about mania seized on all ranks and conditions of men.

1965 M. Tippett Let. ?Feb. (2005) 403 Don't like postponing in this way... It's been mostly due to the un-holy gadding-about of this last January.

2016 Guardian (Nexis) 4 Apr. He himself wasn't averse to a bit of gadding about on TV back in the day.

gadding abroad n. now rare

ΚΠ

1568 E. Tilney Brief Disc. Mariage sig. Eiij I cannot but maruaile, how a woman of estimation can delite in gadding abrode, to be a gossipper.

1620 T. Gataker Marriage Duties 20 The wise man maketh such gadding abroad a note of a light and a lewd houswife.

1776 T. Roch Charters Destructive 10 This was a very prudent bye-law to deter the good woman from gading abroad at such times.

1883 L. W. Champney Three Vassar Girls Abroad xvi. 231 With those bonnets..will surely come the desire of gadding abroad to show them.

1912 West Coast Mag. Aug. 609 The hundred million we annually spend in gadding abroad.

1933 A. Bryant S. Pepys: Man in Making xiii. 263 Elizabeth's gaddings abroad with certain Frenchmen.

gadding around n.

ΚΠ

1868 Cultivator & Country Gentleman 20 Aug. 131/1 More than three-fourths of the gossips..care not how they inconvenience neighbors by gadding around.

1922 House & Garden June 37/1 The passion for golf, the passion for gadding around, draws owners away from their country places.

1950 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 193/1 A gallon of gas would cover a week of gadding around.

2010 S. Giles Primrose Path xviii. 233 There are more important things in your life at the moment than gadding around with boys.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

gaddingn.²

Brit.

/ˈɡadɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈɡædɪŋ/

Forms: 1700s gading, 1800s– gadding.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: gad n.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < gad n.¹ + -ing suffix¹. Compare later gad v.²

Mining. Now rare.

The action or process of splitting rock using gads (gad n.¹ 6).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > other specific mining processes

gadding1753

costeaning1778

refinement1815

rope boring1852

piping1869

chlorination1875

opencasting1886

resue1903

resuing1905

biomining1982

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Gad, in mining..the working by this instrument is thence called gading.

1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 364/2 Fig. 1123 shows the drill mounted on car for gadding.

1916 O. Bowles Technol. Marble Quarrying 71 The blocks 1 to 10 are broken free successively by gadding and wedging, beginning at the open edge of the bench.

1957 Canad. Mining Jrnl. Mar. 65 (heading) Safety Device in Rock Bolting and Gadding.

Compounds

gadding car n. a machine designed to drill straight lines of holes in rock for the insertion of gads, consisting of one or more rock drills mounted on a wheeled platform; cf. gadder n.²; (also) the wheeled platform of a machine of this kind.

ΚΠ

1874 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 14 Aug. 822/1 Several machines on a suitable gadding car or frame.

1988 CIM Bull. (Canad. Inst. Mining & Metall.) May 64/2 The first of these units is a gadding car from 1956, which demonstrates the methods used by the miners of that time to drill holes.

gadding machine a machine designed to drill straight lines of holes in rock for the insertion of gads, consisting of one or more rock drills mounted on a wheeled platform; cf. gadder n.²

ΚΠ

1877 Vermont Hist. Gazetteer 3 1068/1 One Wardwell machine and two gadding machines, manufactured by said Company, are used in the quarry.

1908 Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 347 195 A quarry consisting of a pit 12 feet deep was opened on a marble deposit close to tide water, a channeling and gadding machine was installed, and a cutting plant operated by steam power was erected.

2006 Internat. Jrnl. Coal Geol. 67 97/2 The T685WS gadding machine, made by Schrammin Corporation, USA, was employed to drill boreholes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

gaddingadj.

Brit.

/ˈɡadɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈɡædɪŋ/

Forms: see gad v.¹ and -ing suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: gad v.¹, -ing suffix².

Etymology: < gad v.¹ + -ing suffix².

1. That gads or gads about; (in early use) that goes astray; wandering, roving; (now usually) that goes to many social events or travels to many places for pleasure; gallivanting.In quot. 1859: garrulous, gossiping; cf. gadabout adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering

wanderingc1000

erringa1340

waggeringa1382

vagant1382

vagabond1426

erroneousa1464

fugitive1481

wavering1487

vagrantc1522

gadding1545

roaming1566

roving1576

straggling1589

rambling?1609

wagand1614

wheelinga1616

gadling1616

vagring1619

erratical1620

vaguing1627

erratic1656

planetical1656

waif1724

vagrarious1795

stravaiging1825

vagarious1882

pirooting1958

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 13 Beche, Elder, Aspe, and Salowe, eyther for theyr wekenes or lyghtenesse, make holow, starting, studding, gaddynge shaftes.

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. lii. 236 Our gadding Thoughts conceite the Cloudes.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 42 Envy is a Gadding Passion, and walketh the Streets, and doth not keepe home.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Gadding Gossips, way-going Women, Fidging and Fisking everywhere.

1728 H. Fielding Love in Several Masques iii. vii. 33 The Traps are no gadding Family, our Women stay at Home and do Business.

1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 444 A gadding, feather-brained set of wantons.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 241 The good nuns would check her gadding tongue Full often.

1939 Washington Post 23 July 10/5 This is the twenty-first travel book to be written by the gadding Michigander.

2010 @mollyflatt 11 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I fear for my reputation as a gadding blonde about town.

2. Of a bovine animal: rushing or leaping about in a frenzied manner, because of excessive heat or (esp.) the presence of gadflies. Cf. gad v.¹ 3.

ΚΠ

1604 M. Drayton Moyses i. 25 Scorching heat the gadding Heards do grieue.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xviii. 284 In Summer when the Fly doth prick the gadding Neate.

1737 Artless Muse 42 Gadding Herds, perplex'd with Flies and Heat, Dash'd thro' the Fords.

1793 J. Anketell Poems 196 The gadding cows move homewards slow.

1863 Preston Chron. & Lancs. Advertiser 21 Nov. 3/2 The startled hare, the bleating lamb, the gadding cow.

1936 Manch. Guardian 24 Apr. 6/4 The fly increasing its speed to keep pace with the gadding heifer.

1980 F. Manolson & A. Fraser in K. Thear & A. Fraser Austral. & N.Z. Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry (1981) vii. 187/2 Gadding cattle are liable to break fences and injure themselves.

2007 Irish Times 22 June 21/3 Richie..hopped around like a gadding cow.

3. Chiefly poetic. Of a plant or part of a plant, esp. a vine: spreading, rambling, straggling. Cf. gad v.¹ 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [adjective] > climbing, spreading, or creeping

running1548

spreading1560

flat1578

ramping1578

wandering1590

upcreeping1611

gadding1638

rambling1653

obsequious1657

reptant1657

scansive1657

scansory1657

procumbent1668

repent1669

scandenta1682

supine1686

scrambling1688

creeping1697

sarmentous1721

reptile1727

sarmentose1760

prostrate1773

trailing1785

decumbent1789

travelling1822

vagrant1827

sarmentaceous1830

humifuse1854

sarmentiferous1858

amphibryous1866

humistratous1880

climbing1882

clambering1883

1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 21 in Justa Edouardo King With wild thyme and the gadding vine oregrown.

a1678 A. Marvell Misc. Poems (1681) 97 Curle me about ye gadding Vines.

1751 Love without Mask 7 The gadding musk and wild thyme creep.

1777 T. Warton Inscript. Hermitage iii. 24 Fantastic ivy's gadding spray.

1822 S. Rogers Poems (new ed.) 94 Soon through the gadding vine the sun looks in.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets x. 312 The stone walls..are..fragrant with gadding violets that ripple down their sides.

1943 Country Life 30 July 196/2 Festoons of gadding flowers.

1997 Australian (Nexis) 8 Oct. 18 Tender buds are springing on the gadding vines.

Derivatives

† gaddingly adv. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adverb] > in wandering manner

wilsomelyc1420

erroneously1528

vagrantly1547

gaddingly1552

wanderingly1552

roamingly1621

rovingly1664

excursively1791

ramblingly1855

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Gaddingly, as they that went on pilgrimage, peregre.

1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Bvij He that dothe belch out puffinge rymes, And gaddingly doth straye.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Gaddingly, in a rambling, roving manner.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1533

n.²1753

adj.1545

单词	gadding
释义	gaddingn.¹ Brit. /ˈɡadɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɡædɪŋ/ Forms: see gad v.¹ and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: gad v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < gad v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action of gad v.¹ 1; (originally) idle wandering or roaming; (later usually) socializing or travelling for pleasure, gallivanting. Also in plural: jaunts; travels. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wandering idly roilinga1398 roitinga1450 gadding1533 vaguing1596 expatiation1640 strolling1717 gallivanting1826 streeling1841 traiking1894 stooging1944 swanning1951 1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Iohan Iohan sig. A.i But she wyll go a gaddynge very myche Lyke an Anthony pyg. ?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 108 b Gapynges, gaddynges, ydoll sensynges. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 1 Jan. (1971) IV. 2 Willing to make an end of my gaddings and to set to my business. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 196 Neither pride, debauchery, nor a love of gadding. 1840 R. Bremner Excursions Denmark II. 375 During this gadding season. 1865 M. E. Braddon Sir Jasper I. vii. 164 ‘No gadding after dark, Doll,’ he said in a warning voice. 1959 Tri-state Defender (Memphis, Tennessee) 1 Aug. 10 A newsy letter..tells of her gaddings in Ohio. 2013 Timaru (N.Z.) Herald (Nexis) 13 Dec. (Features section) 9 I've been doing a spot of gadding lately. I think the holiday mode is kicking in already. 2. Rushing about or frenzied leaping of a bovine animal, caused by excessive heat or (now typically) the presence of gadflies. Cf. gad v.¹ 3. ΚΠ 1639 G. Plattes Discov. Infinite Treasure iii. 11 The Cattle..would destroy more with their feet, then they eat with their mouthes, by their gadding. 1688 J. Clayton Let. 12 May in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1693) 17 793 The most of the Cattle will set on gadding, and run..to the River to drink the Salt Water. 1784 J. Twamley Dairying Exemplified 22 Cows on up-lands, perhaps, scorched with heat, and not having the nourishing Stream to go to, or shade to protect them from the Sun, caused their gadding. 1817 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire III. 22 Soiling or Summer stall-feeding of Cattle..preventing gadding. 1860 Times 8 Mar. 12/3 It [sc. the wildness of the cattle] was attributable only to their gadding and to the flies which infested them. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xvii. 434 These flies are not commonly observed in the field, but the reaction of cattle to their presence is frequently marked by ‘gadding’ or stampeding. 1995 Farmers Weekly 31 Mar. 39/2 Farmers should also watch for signs of gadding in their cattle through the summer months. 2003 Insects & Spiders of World (Marshall Cavendish Corporation) X. 584/3 Cattle get so stressed by gadding that they lose weight and produce less milk. Compounds With adverbs, forming compound verbal nouns corresponding to phrasal verbs at gad v.¹ gadding about n. ΚΠ 1562 J. Veron Stronge Battery Inuoc. Saintes f. 17 We haue no neede of many aduocates before God, neyther of muche gaddyng about, for to flatter and speake fayre vnto other. 1655 R. Robinson Safe Conduct 39 Without this guidance wandring beleevers, by their sinful gaddings about would lose themselves. 1722 W. Willymott tr. Thomas à Kempis Of Imitation of Christ Introd. 12 That he fly unnecessary conversation, idle gadding about, news and reports, and give himself to meditation. 1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. viii. 183 A gadding-about mania seized on all ranks and conditions of men. 1965 M. Tippett Let. ?Feb. (2005) 403 Don't like postponing in this way... It's been mostly due to the un-holy gadding-about of this last January. 2016 Guardian (Nexis) 4 Apr. He himself wasn't averse to a bit of gadding about on TV back in the day. gadding abroad n. now rare ΚΠ 1568 E. Tilney Brief Disc. Mariage sig. Eiij I cannot but maruaile, how a woman of estimation can delite in gadding abrode, to be a gossipper. 1620 T. Gataker Marriage Duties 20 The wise man maketh such gadding abroad a note of a light and a lewd houswife. 1776 T. Roch Charters Destructive 10 This was a very prudent bye-law to deter the good woman from gading abroad at such times. 1883 L. W. Champney Three Vassar Girls Abroad xvi. 231 With those bonnets..will surely come the desire of gadding abroad to show them. 1912 West Coast Mag. Aug. 609 The hundred million we annually spend in gadding abroad. 1933 A. Bryant S. Pepys: Man in Making xiii. 263 Elizabeth's gaddings abroad with certain Frenchmen. gadding around n. ΚΠ 1868 Cultivator & Country Gentleman 20 Aug. 131/1 More than three-fourths of the gossips..care not how they inconvenience neighbors by gadding around. 1922 House & Garden June 37/1 The passion for golf, the passion for gadding around, draws owners away from their country places. 1950 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 193/1 A gallon of gas would cover a week of gadding around. 2010 S. Giles Primrose Path xviii. 233 There are more important things in your life at the moment than gadding around with boys. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gaddingn.² Brit. /ˈɡadɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɡædɪŋ/ Forms: 1700s gading, 1800s– gadding. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: gad n.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < gad n.¹ + -ing suffix¹. Compare later gad v.² Mining. Now rare. The action or process of splitting rock using gads (gad n.¹ 6). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > other specific mining processes gadding1753 costeaning1778 refinement1815 rope boring1852 piping1869 chlorination1875 opencasting1886 resue1903 resuing1905 biomining1982 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Gad, in mining..the working by this instrument is thence called gading. 1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 364/2 Fig. 1123 shows the drill mounted on car for gadding. 1916 O. Bowles Technol. Marble Quarrying 71 The blocks 1 to 10 are broken free successively by gadding and wedging, beginning at the open edge of the bench. 1957 Canad. Mining Jrnl. Mar. 65 (heading) Safety Device in Rock Bolting and Gadding. Compounds gadding car n. a machine designed to drill straight lines of holes in rock for the insertion of gads, consisting of one or more rock drills mounted on a wheeled platform; cf. gadder n.²; (also) the wheeled platform of a machine of this kind. ΚΠ 1874 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 14 Aug. 822/1 Several machines on a suitable gadding car or frame. 1988 CIM Bull. (Canad. Inst. Mining & Metall.) May 64/2 The first of these units is a gadding car from 1956, which demonstrates the methods used by the miners of that time to drill holes. gadding machine a machine designed to drill straight lines of holes in rock for the insertion of gads, consisting of one or more rock drills mounted on a wheeled platform; cf. gadder n.² ΚΠ 1877 Vermont Hist. Gazetteer 3 1068/1 One Wardwell machine and two gadding machines, manufactured by said Company, are used in the quarry. 1908 Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 347 195 A quarry consisting of a pit 12 feet deep was opened on a marble deposit close to tide water, a channeling and gadding machine was installed, and a cutting plant operated by steam power was erected. 2006 Internat. Jrnl. Coal Geol. 67 97/2 The T685WS gadding machine, made by Schrammin Corporation, USA, was employed to drill boreholes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). gaddingadj. Brit. /ˈɡadɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɡædɪŋ/ Forms: see gad v.¹ and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: gad v.¹, -ing suffix². Etymology: < gad v.¹ + -ing suffix². 1. That gads or gads about; (in early use) that goes astray; wandering, roving; (now usually) that goes to many social events or travels to many places for pleasure; gallivanting.In quot. 1859: garrulous, gossiping; cf. gadabout adj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering wanderingc1000 erringa1340 waggeringa1382 vagant1382 vagabond1426 erroneousa1464 fugitive1481 wavering1487 vagrantc1522 gadding1545 roaming1566 roving1576 straggling1589 rambling?1609 wagand1614 wheelinga1616 gadling1616 vagring1619 erratical1620 vaguing1627 erratic1656 planetical1656 waif1724 vagrarious1795 stravaiging1825 vagarious1882 pirooting1958 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 13 Beche, Elder, Aspe, and Salowe, eyther for theyr wekenes or lyghtenesse, make holow, starting, studding, gaddynge shaftes. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. lii. 236 Our gadding Thoughts conceite the Cloudes. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 42 Envy is a Gadding Passion, and walketh the Streets, and doth not keepe home. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Gadding Gossips, way-going Women, Fidging and Fisking everywhere. 1728 H. Fielding Love in Several Masques iii. vii. 33 The Traps are no gadding Family, our Women stay at Home and do Business. 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 444 A gadding, feather-brained set of wantons. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 241 The good nuns would check her gadding tongue Full often. 1939 Washington Post 23 July 10/5 This is the twenty-first travel book to be written by the gadding Michigander. 2010 @mollyflatt 11 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I fear for my reputation as a gadding blonde about town. 2. Of a bovine animal: rushing or leaping about in a frenzied manner, because of excessive heat or (esp.) the presence of gadflies. Cf. gad v.¹ 3. ΚΠ 1604 M. Drayton Moyses i. 25 Scorching heat the gadding Heards do grieue. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xviii. 284 In Summer when the Fly doth prick the gadding Neate. 1737 Artless Muse 42 Gadding Herds, perplex'd with Flies and Heat, Dash'd thro' the Fords. 1793 J. Anketell Poems 196 The gadding cows move homewards slow. 1863 Preston Chron. & Lancs. Advertiser 21 Nov. 3/2 The startled hare, the bleating lamb, the gadding cow. 1936 Manch. Guardian 24 Apr. 6/4 The fly increasing its speed to keep pace with the gadding heifer. 1980 F. Manolson & A. Fraser in K. Thear & A. Fraser Austral. & N.Z. Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry (1981) vii. 187/2 Gadding cattle are liable to break fences and injure themselves. 2007 Irish Times 22 June 21/3 Richie..hopped around like a gadding cow. 3. Chiefly poetic. Of a plant or part of a plant, esp. a vine: spreading, rambling, straggling. Cf. gad v.¹ 4. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [adjective] > climbing, spreading, or creeping running1548 spreading1560 flat1578 ramping1578 wandering1590 upcreeping1611 gadding1638 rambling1653 obsequious1657 reptant1657 scansive1657 scansory1657 procumbent1668 repent1669 scandenta1682 supine1686 scrambling1688 creeping1697 sarmentous1721 reptile1727 sarmentose1760 prostrate1773 trailing1785 decumbent1789 travelling1822 vagrant1827 sarmentaceous1830 humifuse1854 sarmentiferous1858 amphibryous1866 humistratous1880 climbing1882 clambering1883 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 21 in Justa Edouardo King With wild thyme and the gadding vine oregrown. a1678 A. Marvell Misc. Poems (1681) 97 Curle me about ye gadding Vines. 1751 Love without Mask 7 The gadding musk and wild thyme creep. 1777 T. Warton Inscript. Hermitage iii. 24 Fantastic ivy's gadding spray. 1822 S. Rogers Poems (new ed.) 94 Soon through the gadding vine the sun looks in. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets x. 312 The stone walls..are..fragrant with gadding violets that ripple down their sides. 1943 Country Life 30 July 196/2 Festoons of gadding flowers. 1997 Australian (Nexis) 8 Oct. 18 Tender buds are springing on the gadding vines. Derivatives † gaddingly adv. Obsolete ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adverb] > in wandering manner wilsomelyc1420 erroneously1528 vagrantly1547 gaddingly1552 wanderingly1552 roamingly1621 rovingly1664 excursively1791 ramblingly1855 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Gaddingly, as they that went on pilgrimage, peregre. 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Bvij He that dothe belch out puffinge rymes, And gaddingly doth straye. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Gaddingly, in a rambling, roving manner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1533n.²1753adj.1545
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gaddingn.1

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gaddingn.2

Compounds

gaddingadj.

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