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:1649 G. DANIEL Trinarch., Hen. IV, cccxlvii, Rather then have the Gad-flyes of an ill-Disposed Army on their shoulders feed. 1807-8 W. IRVING Salmag. (1824) 243 It is our misfortune to be frequently pestered..by certain critical gad-flies. 1864 LOWELL Fireside Trav. 314 Bitten with the [[Anglo-Saxon]] gadfly that drives us all to disenchant artifice.

:1649 G. DANIEL Trinarch., Hen. IV, cccxlvii, Rather then have the Gad-flyes of an ill-Disposed Army on their shoulders feed. 1807-8 W. IRVING Salmag. (1824) 243 It is our misfortune to be frequently pestered..by certain critical gad-flies. 1864 LOWELL Fireside Trav. 314 Bitten with the [[Anglo-Saxon]] gadfly that drives us all to disenchant artifice.

*3. With allusion to GAD v.    a. In phrase to have a gad-fly: to be fond of ‘gadding about’.

*3. With allusion to [[GAD]] v.    a. In phrase to have a gad-fly: to be fond of ‘gadding about’.

:1591 LYLY [[Sappho]] II. iii, My mistresse, I thinke, hath got a gadfly, never at [[home]], and yet none can tell where abroade. 1754 RICHARDSON Grandison I. viii, You have neither wings to your shoulder, nor gad-fly in your cap: you [[love]] home.

:1591 LYLY [[Sappho]] II. iii, My mistresse, I thinke, hath got a gadfly, never at [[home]], and yet none can tell where abroade. 1754 RICHARDSON Grandison I. viii, You have neither wings to your shoulder, nor gad-fly in your cap: you [[love]] home.