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Madding vs Gadding - What's the difference?

madding | gadding |

As verbs the difference between madding and gadding

is that madding is present participle of lang=en while gadding is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective madding

is : Affected with madness; raging; furious.

As a noun gadding is

the act of one who gads, or moves about frivolously.

madding

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(head)
  • (archaic): Affected with madness; raging; furious.
    • Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. -Gray.
    The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged. -Milton.

    Verb

    (head)
    • ----

    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