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Oh! "Dis"-mantling! Groannnn! 
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gadarene suddenly popped up in the world of BMX racing
By gad, I foresee great things for this nine year old.
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PS is "gadding about" related to gadarene?
and what about gadfly? or is that stretching it too far
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I’ve come across a Middle English word which I think was gadden, but I note Allwords.com suggests :
15c: back-formation from Anglo-Saxon gædeling companion
AHD says about gad:
Middle English, from Old Norse gaddr
There seems to be a common Germanic form - can tswmone kind give us the OEDipal version?
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how it became a noun at the same time
'Sbeen a noun for a long, long time, at least since "Romans" talked about the inhabitants of (the land of) Gadara. It appears as such in the text of Matthew, and under a different form in Mark and Luke: Gerasenes.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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