Madded vs Gadded - What's the difference?
madded | gadded |
(mad)
Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
* Shakespeare
Angry, annoyed.
* , chapter=6
, title= Wildly confused or excited.
* Bible, Jer. 1. 88
* 1787: The Fair Syrian, R. Bage,
Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.
(of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
(slang, chiefly Northeastern US) Intensifier, signifies an abundance or high quality of a thing; , much or many.
(of a compass needle) Having impaired polarity.
(slang, New England, New York, and, UK, dialect) Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.
To madden, to anger, to frustrate.
* c''. 1595 , (William Shakespeare), '' , Act V Scene 5:
*, I.2.4.iv:
(gad)
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.
As verbs the difference between madded and gadded
is that madded is (mad) while gadded is (gad).madded
English
Verb
(head)mad
English
Adjective
(madder)- I have heard my grandsire say full oft, / Extremity of griefs would make men mad .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}
- to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred
- It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
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- My brother, quiet as a cat, seems perfectly contented with the internal feelings of his felicity. The Marquis, mad as a kitten, is all in motion to express it, from tongue to heel.
Usage notes
While within the United States and Canada, the word mad'' ''does'' generally imply ''anger'' rather than insanity, such usage is still considered informal. Furthermore, if one is described as having "gone mad" or "went mad", this will unquestionably be taken as denoting ''insanity''''', and not anger. Meanwhile, if one "is mad at" something or has "been mad about" something, it will be assumed that they are '''''angered'' rather than insane. In addition, if the word is understood as being used literally, it will most likely be taken as meaning "insane". Also, in addition to the former, such derivatives as "madness", "madman", "madhouse" and "madly" ''purely denote insanity, irrespective of whether one is in the Commonwealth or in the United States. Lastly, within Commonwealth countries other than Canada, mad'' typically implies the ''insane'' or ''crazy'' sense more so than the ''angry sense.Synonyms
* (insane) See also * (angry) See also * wicked, mighty, kinda, , hella.Adverb
(-)- He was driving mad slow.
- It's mad hot today.
- He seems mad keen on her.
Synonyms
* hella; helluv;Derived terms
* mad as a hatter * madden * madding * madhouse * madlyVerb
(madd)- This musick mads me, let it sound no more.
- He that mads others, if he were so humoured, would be as mad himself, as much grieved and tormented […].
gadded
English
Verb
(head)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.
- (Fairholt)
- (Halliwell)
- (Bartlett)