Brewer's: Gad

(g hard). Gadding from place to place. Wandering from pillar to post without any profitable purpose.

“Give water no passage, neither a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad.” —Ecclesiasticus xxv. 25.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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