gaddishness

noun

gaddishness

noun

Etymology From gaddish + -ness.

1

Nonce word Quality of being gaddish.

  • 1693-1694, Robert Leighton, A Practical Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Peter Elders, be such in grave and pious carriage, whatsoever be your years; for young men may be so, and, possibly, gray hairs may have nothing under them but gaddishness and folly many years old, habituated and inveterate ungodliness!

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