Read full poem →And thus broke out--'My Lord, why, what the devil?
Z--ds! damn the lock! 'fore Gad, you must be civil!
Plague on't! 'tis past a jest--nay, prithee, pox!
Dictionary Entry
An exclamatory interjection roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “gad”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Greek, or the Latin. He is for no gallant’s company
without ’em. And bv Gad’s lid I scorn it, I, so I
do, to be a consort for every hum-drum, hang-em
Read full poem →53eftimm' S)i(i^, gauft, nun für ein gad^, befltntte
aWit @rnft ba« ©tubüim, ha& S)tt cmä^It.
Read full poem →Others not so wild and mad,
That can better bear the gad,
Underneath the hedge-row lunge,
Read full poem →It was a gad day for her when her benefactor passec away.
Read full poem →"All serene! 'Gad, I never expected to see you again, Findlayson.
You're seven koss down-stream. Yes, there's not a stone shifted
Read full poem →"I've been thinking about it," the senior answered, "Not half a bad
job for two men, is it?" "One--and a half. 'Gad, what a Cooper's Hill
cub I was when I came on the works!" Hitchcock felt very old in the
Read full poem →Does he steal with tears when he buccaneers?
'Fore Gad, then, why does he steal?”
The skipper bit on a deep-sea word, and the word it was not sweet,