bourd

English

Etymology

From Middle English bourde, from Old French bourde.

Noun

bourd (plural bourds)

1. (obsolete) A joke; jesting, banter.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:

     The wisard could no lenger beare her bord,
     But brusting forth in laughter, to her sayd;
     Glauce, what needs this colourable word […] ?

Derived terms

• bourder

 

References

• “bourd”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Burdo

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

bourd

1. Alternative form of bord

Etymology 2

Noun

bourd

1. Alternative form of bourde