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gadling(medicine)
gadling(1)(dictionary)
gadling(2)(dictionary)

gadling(1) (iou) and Somasco (iou)


gadling(1) (iou)



gadling noun1 & adjective.
A. noun.
A companion, a fellow. OE-LME.
A base low-born person, a scoundrel. Also, a wanderer, a vagabond. ME-M16.
b. adjective. Wandering, straggling. Formerly also, base, low-born. LME-E18.

Somasco (iou)



Somasco noun. . Orig. (after French) Somasque. L17.
[Italian, from Somasca a town in N. Italy.]
Hist. A member of a charitable religious order founded at Somasca by Gerolamo Emiliani about 1530. Usu. in pl.
Also Somaschan noun L19.