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Definition of 'gaud'English
Etymology 1
Noun
( en-noun)
a cheap showy trinket
* Shakespeare
- an idle gaud
* 1926 Dalmeny lent me red tabs, Evans his brass hat; so that I had the gauds of my appointment in the ceremony of the Jaffa gate, which for me was the supreme moment of the war. - T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
(obsolete) trick; jest; sport
- (Chaucer)
(obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice
- (Chaucer)
Related terms
* gaudy
Verb
( en-verb)
(obsolete) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.
- Nicely gauded cheeks. — Shakespeare.
Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) .
Verb
( en-verb)
To sport or keep festival.
* Sir T. North
- gauding with his familiars
Similar to 'gaud'good, god, gad, goad, guyed, gud, goud, gcd, gooed, geoid, geed, gid, gawd, gewd, gedd, ghood, ghod, gayed
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