gaud
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English gaude, gawde (“jest, prank, trick; ornamental bead in a rosary, trinket, bauble”). Compare Middle English gaudy, gaudee, of the same meaning.
Noun
gaud (plural gauds)
- a cheap showy trinket
- Shakespeare
- an idle gaud
- 1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- 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.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) trick; jest; sport
- (obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice
Translations
a cheap showy trinket
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Verb
gaud (third-person singular simple present gauds, present participle gauding, simple past and past participle gauded)
- (obsolete) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.
- Shakespeare
- Nicely gauded cheeks.
- Shakespeare
Etymology 2
Compare French se gaudir (“to rejoice”).
Verb
gaud (third-person singular simple present gauds, present participle gauding, simple past and past participle gauded)
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