Meanings
adverbby gad (not comparable)
- not comparableminced oathby God.
That's the trouble — it was too easy for you — you got reckless — thought you could turn me inside out, and chuck me in the gutter like an empty purse. But, by gad, that ain't playing fair: that's dodging the rules of the game.
1905, Edith Wharton, chapter 13, in The House of Mirth
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