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Definition of Gadding
1. a. & n. Going about much, needlessly or without purpose.
Definition of Gadding
1. Verb. (present participle of gad) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gadding
1. gad [v] - See also: gad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gadding
Literary usage of Gadding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"A right title to his own condition is his book, who, like a wild beast, is gadding
up and down; but the Lord rebuke such spirits. His principles follow. ..."
2. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"Then idle Time ran gadding by And left me with Eternity alone; I hear beyond the
range of sound, I see beyond the verge of sight, — I see, smell, taste, ..."
3. On English Poetry: Being an Irregular Approach to the Psychology of this Art by Robert Graves (1922)
"IX THE gadding VINE WHEN we say that a poet is born not made, it is saying
something much more that Poetry is essentially spontaneous in origin, ..."
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