gad vs spur what difference
what is difference between gad and spur
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡæd/
- Rhymes: -æd
Etymology 1
Taboo deformation of God.
Interjection
gad
- An exclamatory interjection roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness’ sake.
Derived terms
- egads
- egad
Etymology 2
From Middle English gadden (“to hurry, to rush about”).
Verb
gad (third-person singular simple present gads, present participle gadding, simple past and past participle gadded)
- (intransitive) To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
- Synonym: gallivant
- 1852, Alice Cary, Clovernook ….
- 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.
- 1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Fourth, page 123
- So when he saw King Arthur he said: “Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?”
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 19, [1]
- But there is no telling the sacrament, seldom if in any case revealed to the gadding world, wherever under circumstances at all akin to those here attempted to be set forth, two of great Nature’s nobler order embrace.
Derived terms
- gadabout
- gaddish, gaddishness
Translations
Noun
gad (plural gads)
- One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
Etymology 3
From Middle English gade (“a fool, rascal, scoundrel; bastard”), from Old English gāda (“fellow, companion, comrade, associate”), related to Proto-West Germanic *gaduling (“kinsman”). Cognate with Dutch gade (“spouse”), German Gatte (“male spouse, husband”). See also gadling.
Alternative forms
- ged, gade
Noun
gad (plural gads)
- (Northern England, Scotland, derogatory) A greedy and/or stupid person.
- 1913, George Gordon, The Auld Clay Biggin
- Ye greedy ged, ye have taken the very breath out o’ me.
- 1913, George Gordon, The Auld Clay Biggin
References
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
Etymology 4
From Middle English gad, gadde, borrowed from Old Norse gaddr (“goad, spike”), from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz (“spike, rod, stake”).
Noun
gad (plural gads)
- A sharp-pointed object; a goad.
- Synonym: goad
- 1885, Detroit Free Press., December 17
- Twain finds his voice after a short search for it and when he impels it forward it is a good, strong, steady voice in harness until the driver becomes absent-minded, when it stops to rest, and then the gad must be used to drive it on again.
- (obsolete) A metal bar.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Book XV:
- they sette uppon hym and drew oute their swerdys to have slayne hym – but there wolde no swerde byghte on hym more than uppon a gadde of steele, for the Hyghe Lorde which he served, He hym preserved.
- 1677-1684, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick exercises
- Flemish steel […] some in bars and some in gads.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Book XV:
- (especially mining) A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 327:
- Frank was able to keep his eyes open long enough to check his bed with a miner’s gad and douse the electric lamp
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 327:
- (dated, metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, perhaps equivalent to the bloom, perhaps weighing around 100 pounds.
- 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 146.
- Twice a day a ‘gad’ of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1 cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours.
- 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 146.
- A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
- Synonyms: gadling, spike
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- (Britain, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with.
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Derived terms
- gadfly
Translations
Anagrams
- DAG, GDA, dag
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡʌd/
- Hyphenation: gad
Noun
gád m (plural gadoowá f or gaditté f or gadoodá f)
- song
- sung poetry
Declension
References
- E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “gad”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɡ̊æˀð], [ˈɡ̊æðˀ]
Verb
gad
- past tense of gide
Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish gat.
Noun
gad m (genitive singular gaid, nominative plural gaid)
- withe
- string, rope, band
- Obsolete spelling of goid
- Obsolete spelling of cad
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Irish gataid (“takes away, removes, pulls or snatches away; takes away (something from someone), deprives of; of carrying off booty; takes away the expectation, hope of (something, an event); steals”).
Verb
gad (present analytic gadann, future analytic gadfaidh, verbal noun gad, past participle gadta)
- (transitive, intransitive, literary) take away, remove; snatch, carry off
- Alternative form of goid
Conjugation
Mutation
Further reading
- “gad” in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- “gad” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 344.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gat”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gataid (‘take away, steal’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “gad” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “gad” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *gadъ (“serpent”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡat/
Noun
gad m
- (archaic) venomous snake, viper, adder
- poison, venom
Declension
Animate declension (‘venomous snake, viper, adder’):
Inanimate declension (‘poison, venom’):
Further reading
- Arnošt Muka (1921, 1928), “gad”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German, Russian), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted (in German)Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- gad in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kàt/, [kàt], [kɣàt]
Noun
gad
- juniper, cedar (especially Juniperus deppeana)
Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *gadъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡat/
Noun
gad m anim
- reptile (cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia)
- (Cieszyn Silesia, Upper Silesia, Bukovina) snake (reptile of the suborder Serpentes)
Declension
Derived terms
- gadzi (adjective)
Noun
gad m pers
- scoundrel (villain)
Declension
Further reading
- gad in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- gad in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kat̪/
Pronoun
gad
- you (informal singular, direct object)
Usage notes
- Lenites the following word.
Related terms
Noun
gad m (genitive singular gaid, plural gaid or gadan)
- withy, withe
Conjunction
gad
- Alternative form of ged
Mutation
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *gadъ
Noun
gȁd m (Cyrillic spelling га̏д)
- a repulsive person
- scoundrel
- cad
- asshole
- snake; lizard
Declension
Somali
Verb
gad
- to buy
Torres Strait Creole
Noun
gad
- (eastern dialect) an immature coconut
Usage notes
Gad or smol koknat is the third stage of coconut growth. It is preceded by giru (eastern dialect) or musu koknat (western dialect), and followed by kopespes.
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Etymology
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Noun
gad
- snake
Inflection
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Volapük
Noun
gad (nominative plural gads)
- garden
Declension
Derived terms
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡaːd/
Etymology 1
Noun
gad
- Soft mutation of cad.
Mutation
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- gadawa (colloquial)
Verb
gad
- (literary) second-person singular imperative of gadael
Mutation
Western Apache
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kàt]
Noun
gad
- cedar or juniper tree, especially Juniperus deppeana.
References
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /spɜː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /spɝ/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From Middle English spure, spore, from Old English spura, spora, from Proto-Germanic *spurô, from Proto-Indo-European *sper-, *sperw- (“to twitch, push, fidget, be quick”).
Noun
spur (plural spurs)
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one’s heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- Meronyms: rowel, prick
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22:
- Two sorts of spurs seem to have been in use about the time of the Conquest, one called a pryck, having only a single point like the gaffle of a fighting cock; the other consisting of a number of points of considerable length, radiating from and revolving on a center, thence named the rouelle or wheel spur.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- 1832, The Atheneum (volume 31, page 493)
- I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and a spur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry to be married as Kit himself.
- 1832, The Atheneum (volume 31, page 493)
- (figuratively) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- Roots, tree roots.
- (geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
- (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel’s side.
- (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- (mining) A branch of a vein.
- (rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
- (transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- (botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
Derived terms
- spur gear
- spur-leather
- spur-of-the-moment
- spur road
Translations
Verb
spur (third-person singular simple present spurs, present participle spurring, simple past and past participle spurred)
- (transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act V, Scene III, line 339:
- Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act V, Scene III, line 339:
- (transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
- Synonyms: incite, stimulate, instigate, impel, drive; see also Thesaurus:incite
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene IV, line 4.
- My desire / (More sharp than filed steel) did spur me forth…
- (transitive) To put spurs on.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
- To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)
Derived terms
- spur on
Translations
Etymology 2
See sparrow.
Noun
spur (plural spurs)
- A tern.
Etymology 3
Short for spurious.
Noun
spur (plural spurs)
- (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
Etymology 4
Noun
spur (plural spurs)
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
Translations
Etymology 5
Verb
spur (third-person singular simple present spurs, present participle spurring, simple past and past participle spurred)
- (obsolete, dialectal) Alternative form of speer.
- 1638, Thomas Heywood, “The Rape of Lucrece. A true Roman Tragedy”, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, Vol. V, John Pearson, 1874, pages 230 & 231.
- The Pall Mall Magazine, Vol. 33, 1904, page 435.
- 1638, Thomas Heywood, “The Rape of Lucrece. A true Roman Tragedy”, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, Vol. V, John Pearson, 1874, pages 230 & 231.
Anagrams
- Prus, purs, surp
Middle English
Noun
spur
- Alternative form of spore
Scots
Alternative forms
- sparra
- spug
- spuggie
- speug
Noun
spur (plural spurs)
- sparrow
References
- “spur” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.