gaud

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɔːd/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɔd/ (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ɡɑd/ Rhymes: -ɔːd Homophones: god (cot–caught merger); gored (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger); gourd (non-rhotic, pour–poor merger) === 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 1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (published 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. (obsolete) trick; jest; sport (obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== gaudy ===== Translations ===== ==== 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. === Etymology 2 === Compare French gaudir (“to rejoice”). ==== Verb ==== gaud (third-person singular simple present gauds, present participle gauding, simple past and past participle gauded) To sport or keep festival. === Anagrams === Dagu, Guad. == Ilocano == === Noun === gaud paddle; oar == Lubuagan Kalinga == === Noun === gaud paddle; oar