gad

The humor doesn’t so much pop as gad about.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2022

Bernice King’s father gad called Vivian “the greatest preacher who ever lived,” a fierce and influential advocate for social justice.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2021

But do you remember how that face looked in 1992, when the supermodel, shown below, was in her 20s, on the gad at the Park Avenue Armory for a Versace gala, aglitter in ruby sequins?

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2012

Brazil forward Alexandre Pato would rather play for Milan than gad about with England's Brave John Terry at Chelsea.

From The Guardian ● May 11, 2010

"By gad, I'll have my lawyers on to her for this! I'll make her pay through the nose!"

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

The Americas with Simon Reeve is an amiable travelogue in which a dishy documentarian gads about the US.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2019

When the Senate is not sitting, he gads about the country publicizing golf tournaments on public links.

From Time Magazine Archive

She got disgusted and said, Ye gads, like ABC gum, already been chewed.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

So, for a week we climbed the mountain, laden with picks, drills, gads, crowbars, shovels, cans of blasting powder and coils of fuse and strove with might and main.

From Roughing It, Part 3. by Mark Twain

Scott saw the real meaning of this nonsense, and read - With springalds, stones, and gads o' airn.

From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Andrew Lang

One was back in the city, on the evening of a reporter’s visit, to be followed the next day by a conference where he gadded about with John Legend.

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2015

So while Johann I gadded about, Johann II composed and practiced the organ in church.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Ogletree even primped her boy Georgie, whom she’d gadded up in a green velvet Little Lord Fauntleroy suit.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

The way you gadded around over the hills with him—a perfect stranger—was disgraceful; perfectly disgraceful.

From Her Prairie Knight by B. M. Bower

But if it gets out that I gadded about for a day with an officer, even though he is a padre, and that we went miles out of town, there'll be some row, my boy.

From Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable

But with the big night in sight there's no more time for gadding about.

From BBC ● May 15, 2019

It has been a good twenty-five years since they would have been arrested, or shot, just for gadding about in joy on the river, as they are now.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2015

The other half of the year, when we’re not gadding about, Cosima cooks for us at her place.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2015

Hockney, an Englishman who loves opera and long designed opera sets, is reading more and gadding about less.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2015

“Hold your tongue, you disrespectful old bird! And, Jo, you’d better go at once. It isn’t proper to be gadding about so late with a rattlepated boy like...”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott