Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A gaudy or showy ornament or trinket.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
goad and of gad, 5. - noun Jest; joke; sport; pastime; trick; artifice.
- noun A piece of showy finery; a gay trapping, trinket, or the like; any object of ostentation or exultation.
- noun Same as
gaudy , 3. - To sport; jest; make merry.
- To adorn with gauds or trinkets; decorate meretriciously; paint, as the cheeks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint.
- intransitive verb obsolete, obsolete, obsolete To sport or keep festival.
- noun obsolete Trick; jest; sport.
- noun obsolete Deceit; fraud; artifice; device.
- noun An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
cheap showy trinket - verb obsolete To
bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; topaint .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Such gaud is characteristic of the spiritual harlot (Re 17: 4).
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His clothes were not precisely gaud. v, but the republican simplicity of Neuvamerica found them barbaric -- high-collared blouse, baggy blue trousers tucked into soft half boots, surcoat embroidered with twined snakes and flowers, a silver dragon brooch.
do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010
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Like SHE in her lonely alien gaud waiting her Egyptian lover so I wait -- bereft of 2,000 years and the bath of life.
April 2007 2007
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Like SHE in her lonely alien gaud waiting her Egyptian lover so I wait -- bereft of 2,000 years and the bath of life.
Corso 2007
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Where got you that rich gaud for covering, that spangled shell — a tortoise living in the mountains?
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Can't Post | oh i forgot since there are in fact a bunch of old farts playing in gaud 3 times a week i will be bringing hockey sticks and my bag full of hockey gear-if they allow noxious dangerous goods across the border.
Ok, I have read this thing for over a year..............I'm coming anyway! 2003
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Can't Post | oh i forgot since there are in fact a bunch of old farts playing in gaud 3 times a week i will be bringing hockey sticks and my bag full of hockey gear-if they allow noxious dangerous goods across the border.
Ok, I have read this thing for over a year..............I'm coming anyway! 2003
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Can't Post | oh i forgot since there are in fact a bunch of old farts playing in gaud 3 times a week i will be bringing hockey sticks and my bag full of hockey gear-if they allow noxious dangerous goods across the border.
Ok, I have read this thing for over a year..............I'm coming anyway! 2003
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Can't Post | oh i forgot since there are in fact a bunch of old farts playing in gaud 3 times a week i will be bringing hockey sticks and my bag full of hockey gear-if they allow noxious dangerous goods across the border.
Ok, I have read this thing for over a year..............I'm coming anyway! 2003
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Can't Post | oh i forgot since there are in fact a bunch of old farts playing in gaud 3 times a week i will be bringing hockey sticks and my bag full of hockey gear-if they allow noxious dangerous goods across the border.
Ok, I have read this thing for over a year..............I'm coming anyway! 2003
fbharjo commented on the word gaud
gaud-y
April 10, 2009
bilby commented on the word gaud
Surelie gaud-ie on Wordie.
April 10, 2009