Gab vs Gad - What's the difference?
gab | gad |
idle chatter
The mouth or gob.
One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
(obsolete) To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
(obsolete) To speak or tell falsely.
An exclamatory interjection roughly equivalent to 'by God', 'goodness gracious', 'for goodness' sake'.
To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
* 1852 , Alice Cary,
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A sharp-pointed object; a goad.
* 1885 ,
(obsolete) A metal bar.
* 1485 , Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XV:
* Moxon
A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock, especially in mining.
* Shakespeare
* 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.
A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
(UK, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with.
In intransitive terms the difference between gab and gad
is that gab is to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects while gad is to move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.As nouns the difference between gab and gad
is that gab is idle chatter while gad is a sharp-pointed object; a goad.As verbs the difference between gab and gad
is that gab is to jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie while gad is to move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.As an interjection gad is
an exclamatory interjection roughly equivalent to 'by God', 'goodness gracious', 'for goodness' sake'.As a proper noun Gad is
the seventh son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.As an acronym GAD is
generalized anxiety disorder.gab
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* gabby * gift of the gabVerb
(gabb)Anagrams
* * * * ----gad
English
Etymology 1
Taboo deformation of (God).Interjection
(en interjection)- 1905' '' That's the trouble -- it was too easy for you -- you got reckless -- thought you could turn me inside out, and chuck me in the gutter like an empty purse. But, by '''gad , that ain't playing fair: that's dodging the rules of the game.'' — Edith Wharton, ''
House of Mirth.
Derived terms
* egads * egadEtymology 2
(etyl) .Verb
(gadd)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.
Synonyms
* gallivantDerived terms
* gadabout * gaddish, gaddishnessEtymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)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.
- 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.
- Flemish steel some in bars and some in gads .
- I will go get a leaf of brass, / And with a gad of steel will write these words.
- Frank was able to keep his eyes open long enough to check his bed with a miner's gad and douse the electric lamp
- ''Twice a day a 'gad' of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1 cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours.
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