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Gadding vs Gadling - What's the difference?

gadding | gadling |

As nouns the difference between gadding and gadling

is that gadding is the act of one who gads, or moves about frivolously while gadling is roving vagabond; one who roams.

As a verb gadding

is .

gadding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who gads, or moves about frivolously.
  • * 1879', William Adolph Baillie Grohman, '''''Gaddings with a Primitive People

    • gadling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • roving vagabond; one who roams
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1947 , year_published=2006 , edition=digitized , editor= , author=Thomas Bertram Costain , title=The Moneyman , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Doubleday , isbn= , page=57 , passage=I'm delighted to see you. You're as brown, my gadling , as though you had returned from another journey to the East with Jean de Village. }}
  • A man of humble condition; a fellow; a low fellow; lowborn; originally comrade or companion, in a good sense, but later used in reproach
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1906 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Rudyard Kipling , title=Puck of Pook's Hill , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page=96 , passage=“Pest on him!” said De Aquila. “I have more to do than to shiver in the Great Hall for every gadling the King sends. Left he no word?” }}
  • A spike on a gauntlet; a gad.

    • References

    (Webster 1913) * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia