Gadding

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of going about idly, or of moving from place to place from mere curiosity; an idle visit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • Going about much, needlessly or without purpose.
  • in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of gad.
  • Word Usage
    "My brother, who works the milk rounds with my father and whom I've been closer to than anyone in my family and is my greatest supporter. has now adopted the air of someone getting on with the real business of life, and not "gadding" after pie-in-the-sky notions of stardom and the high life."
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    adding  madding  padding  
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    verb-stem
    gad