{"id":21944,"date":"2022-02-16T22:18:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T22:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21944"},"modified":"2022-02-17T21:47:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T21:47:51","slug":"gadwaddicking-gads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21944","title":{"rendered":"Gadwaddicking Gads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If someone told you they were going to <strong>gadwaddick<\/strong>, what do you think they meant?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foundin_a_attic\/34802623085\/in\/photolist-V2oxkB-GzpJPM-2me5ZZM-PKW72U-2mHroZG-7pQbi3-2ki2EYj-EShuYT-2mHiNd9-aG6M7D-7pLwGx-2kyKnhM-s621v5-7pLeoZ-7pQ9cE-2mHiNai-2mHp73y-7pQaew-2kyL31p-78sfAs-2iz5Ckq-2hJS28d-PHw58i-nx1a6j-2iJZLyL-q7hE7-JuEtFn-QTL8k4-rpjgp-2mHnVhv-2hAkPyR-chsith-viSFR5-jMPd9e-e9zHgC-2mHp6XD-7pQGKA-7pQa33-zXjM8L-55WMvg-fpSEqC-7pQoY7-2k4oABy-2mHiNmA-2mHnV99-2mHspCu-7pLf5F-7pQRpC-7pLebX-2mHspyB\" title=\"jaunting cars\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4160\/34802623085_fd752ba32a_z.jpg\" alt=\"jaunting cars\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here are a few possible meanings of <strong>to gadwaddick<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>to drag or tail along, to walk draggingly<\/li>\n<li>to go on a pleasure trip, to jaunt, to gad about<\/li>\n<li>to saunter, to walk slowly and clumsily<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It is in fact the second, and is used in Norfolk dialect in the east of England. The first definition is for the word <strong>to drail<\/strong>, which is used in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Dorest, Somerset in the the southwest of English, and the third definition is for the word <strong>to dadge<\/strong>, which comes from the dialects of Northumbria and Cumbria in the north of England.<\/p>\n<p>These words all come from <a href=\"https:\/\/b-ok.cc\/book\/3150949\/c11607\"><em>The English dialect dictionary<\/em><\/a> by Joseph Wright, which was published in 1900.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>gadabout<\/strong> is someone who restlessly moves from place to place, seeking amusement or the companionship of others, or in other words, someone who gads about [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/gadabout\">source<\/a>], or gadwaddick about in Norfolk.<\/p>\n<p>The verb <strong>to gad<\/strong> means &#8220;to move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner&#8221;. It comes from the Middle English word <em>gadden<\/em> (to hurry, to rush about) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/gad#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>gad<\/strong> is a greedy and\/or stupid person, at least in northern England and Scotland, and comes from the Middle English <em>gade<\/em> (a fool, simpleton, rascal, scoundrel), from the Old English <em>gada<\/em> (fellow, companion, comrade, associate), from the Proto-West Germanic <em>*gad\u014d<\/em>, from the Proto-Germanic <em>*gad\u00f4\/*gagad\u00f4<\/em> (companion, associate), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*g\u02b0ed\u02b0-<\/em> (to join, unite)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/gad#Etymology_3\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone told you they were going to gadwaddick, what do you think they meant? Here are a few possible meanings of to gadwaddick: to drag or tail along, to walk draggingly to go on a pleasure trip, to jaunt, to gad about to saunter, to walk slowly and clumsily It is in fact the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,26,33,44,45,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-west-germanic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21944"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21955,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21944\/revisions\/21955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}