gaudn.1
Obsolete exc. Historical.
One of the larger and more ornamental beads placed between the decades of ‘aves’ in a rosary. (Called in French signaux or seigneaux.)
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > rosary > [noun] > bead of > indicating paternoster is to be said
paternosterc1275
gaud1390
gaudy1434
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 372 A paire of bedes blacke as sable..Upon the gaudes all without Was write of gold pur reposer.
1531 in F. W. Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 134 A pere of beydes of jette with sylver gaudes.
1570 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 164 She saith that she occupied her gaudes as many thowsand dyd.
1874 Archæol. Assoc. Jrnl. Dec. 440 In all probability this large and once beautiful bead formed the Gaude or ‘Pater noster’ of a rosary of the sixteenth century.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
gaudn.2
/ɡɔːd/ a. A trick, prank; often, a device to deceive, a piece of trickery, a pretence; also a game, sport, or pastime. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > a trick, deception
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junt1608
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overreach?1615
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spring1753
shavie1767
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Yorkshire bite1795
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practical1833
deceptivity1843
tread-behind1844
fly1861
schlenter1864
Sinonism1864
racket1869
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ficelle1890
wheeze1903
fast one1912
roughie1914
spun-yarn trick1916
fastie1931
phoney baloney1933
fake-out1955
okey-doke1964
mind-fuck1971
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋577 Þay maken folk to laughe..as folk doon at the gawdes of An Ape.
a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 3957 For thi gaudes [printed gandes] and thy gilry I gif this dome that thou sal dy.
a1400–50 Alexander 2732 Sire vanite & vayne-glori & vices of pride Þa ere þe gaudis, as I gesse þat all gods hatis.
a1400–50 Alexander 2966 Sone þis gouernour of grece is of þis gaude ware.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. x. 173 Bot þis King Edward all wyth gawdys Knakkyd Robert þe Brws wyth frawdis.
c1440 York Myst. xi. 37 What gawdes haue they begonne?
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. ii. 27 Quhat God amovit him with sic a gawd In his dedis to oys sik slychtis and frawd.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy xxii. 9279 Þat he..with no gawdes me begile.
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xxxiv. 85 Quhen thay begyn sic gawdis To leif thay ar most laith.
1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. D.jv These Enterluds, these newe Italian sportes, And euery gawde, that glads the minde of man.
1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 32 There was never Christmas Game performed with moe apish indecent slovenly Gawdes then your Baptising and Super-baptising Ceremonies are.
a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) ii. xxvi. 22 Staying too long at your gawdes, following them such a space of time together, or with such great violence, that you be even tired and spent by them.
1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. II (at cited word) Goad, a custom, a way of doing a thing.]
1896 W. W. Skeat & T. Hallam Pegge's Two Coll. Derbicisms 26 Gawd; an ugly gawd, a habit or custom.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [noun] > instance of
hoker-wordOE
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gaudc1440
knack1513
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jest1548
to have a fling at?1550
snack?1554
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scoff1573
flouting-stock1593
mycterism1593
flirt1613
fleera1616
scomma1620
jeer1631
snouchc1780
brocard1837
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object of ridicule
hethinga1340
japing-stickc1380
laughing stock?1518
mocking-stock1526
laughing game1530
jesting-stock1535
mockage1535
derision1539
sporting stocka1556
game1562
May game1569
scoffing-stock1571
playing stock1579
make-play1592
flouting-stock1593
sport1598
bauchle1600
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scoff1640
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joke1791
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laughing post1810
target1842
jest-word1843
Aunt Sally1859
monument1866
punchline1978
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 188/2 Gawde or iape, nuga.
?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature i. sig. Aiiij Withuot [sic] vayne gaudes or fables.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2302/1 The sayd Iohn Apowell mocked him..with contrary gaudes and floutyng wordes.
1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xxi. 9) 165 [Ishmael mocked] At that mystical name Isaac, as a gaud, or laughing-stock.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun]
festivityc1410
rejoicingc1475
festivala1500
gaudy1535
show of misrule1555
gaudc1571
wake1577
festal1581
jubilee1589
gaudy-nighta1616
gala night1762
bridewain1789
gala1800
bean-feast1805
holinighta1821
let-off1827
glorification1843
pesta1964
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [noun] > instance of
laetificationc1485
gaudy1535
gratulation1549
gaudc1571
c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) ii. vi. 99 Therefore at the decease of the Lorde Justice..bonfiers and gaudyes were solemnized in all the lande.
2. concrete. A plaything, toy. Also (now always), something gaudy; a showy ornament, a piece of finery; a gewgaw. Now rhetorical. [Perhaps influenced by gaud n.1]
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > [noun]
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gaudc1430
jape1436
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toy?1565
gay1577
gambol1579
ruggle1598
frolic1650
playthinga1674
wally1692
sporting-piece1740
playferea1774
play material1897
play-pretty1905
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > cheap or gaudy > gewgaw or trinket
baublec1330
gaudc1430
gayc1475
strincate1489
trim-tram1523
gewgawa1529
trinketa1533
toy1548
gaudy1555
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trinkilo1631
jingle-jangle1640
prettiness1649
trinkum1665
knacka1677
knick-knack1682
trinkum-trankum1699
knick-knacket1793
knick-knackery1812
trankum1819
gaw1822
pretty1882
trinklet1897
mathom1954
tchotchke1968
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > embellishment > an) ornament(s)
coloursc1405
rhetoricc1425
gaudc1430
flower1508
flourish1603
embellishment1632
flosculation1651
floscule1669
gayness1670
floresa1734
taga1734
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > [noun]
playeOE
gameeOE
disportc1380
sportc1443
museryc1450
pastime?1473
gaud1587
playgame1596
exercise1622
amusement1632
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ploya1689
lounge1788
divertissement1804
happening1959
letterboxing1977
timepass1982
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems 92 Where he [Sardanapalus] with wymmen satte and made his gawdes.
?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 119 b A wonton gyglot maye cal men to sorrowfull repentaunce, whils she is yet in her gawdes, and the maystre of the stewes maye persuade men to chastyte.
1587 J. Harmar tr. T. de Bèze Serm. 82 To disburden her [the Church] of those stincking and defiled gawdes, to restore her vnto her natiue beuty. [Cf. ante, Which disguised hir with prophane trimmings & tifflings vp of her.]
1591 H. Smith Trumpet of Soule sig. A6v Why Solomon maketh us fooles and giueth us gaudes to play withall.
1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule of Holy Living (1727) ii. §4. 96 Or should study hard and labour to cozen a child of his gauds.
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 ccvi. 52 Some bound for Guinny, golden sand to find, Bore all the gawds the simple Natives wear.
1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xviii. 10 Dainties he heeded not, nor gaude, nor toy.
1823 W. M. Praed Troubadour in Poems (1865) I. 121 A dazzling gaud of twisted gold.
1842 F. Trollope Visit to Italy I. xxii. 363 The gaud that most delights the ladies..is the old lace.
1883 Sat. Rev. 55 497 Otherwise than as gauds for a procession they [umbrellas] are not held in any great estimation.
3.
a. plural. Showy ceremonies, ‘pomps and vanities’; gaieties. Now rhetorical.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > [noun]
spectaclea1340
speculationc1440
steracle14..
triumphc1503
show1565
sprank1568
ostentation1598
presentationa1616
exposition1649
gauds1652
raree-show1681
spectacle1749
exhibition1761
draw1881
spectacular1890
1652 W. Brough Sacred Princ. (ed. 2) 66 The Gawds and Glories of an Earthly Court.
1803 H. K. White Lines on Surv. of Heavens in Clifton Grove 67 How insignificant do all the joys, The gaudes, and honours of the world appear!
1853 J. L. Motley Let. 30 June in Corr. (1889) I. v. 157 I had hoped that Mary would have mustered up energy to send you a description of these fine doings... I am not good at these gauds.
1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 249 Its bishops and patriarchs surrounded themselves with the pomps and gauds of this world.
b. singular. Idle display; showy ceremony.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > (an) ostentatious display
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vaunterya1492
pomping pridec1503
braga1513
flaunt-a-flaunt1576
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affecting1584
top and topgallant1593
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riota1649
flutter1667
show1713
sprunk1746
to make a splash1804
show-off1811
paraffle1816
shine1819
splurge1828
gaud1831
spludge1831
poppy-show1860
razzle1885
razzmatazz1917
foofaraw1933
showbiz1970
glitz1977
1831 T. Campbell in Metropolitan July 219 Public Murder!—that with pomp and gaud, And royal scorn of Justice, walks abroad.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi II. iv. i. 89 The pomp, the gaud..strongly contrasted the patriarchal simplicity which marked his justice court.
Compounds
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > splendour > [adjective] > of fine or gay appearance
gay?c1225
jollyc1380
gallantc1420
show-worthy1542
gaud-glorious1555
brave1568
of show1580
gaudy1583
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cavalier1670
showish1675
showy1712
braw1724
branky1790
viewy1850
cheesy1858
cheesy1863
jazzified1920
jazzed1922
zizzy1966
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. viii. L ij a In their Toumbes..very plaine and nothyng costlie: But in trimming and arraieng of their bodies, to, to, gaude glorious.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† gaudv.1
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To furnish with ‘gauds’ (see gaud n.1, gaudy n. 1).
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > rosary > [verb (intransitive)] > furnish with paternoster beads
gaudc1405
gaudy?1484
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 159 A peyre of bedes gauded al with greene.
1500 Will of Letuce Sturdy (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/12) f. 108 A payre of Corall bedys of fifty gawded with bedis of syluer and gilt.
1527 Inv. Goods T. Cromwell (Pub. Rec. Off.) ij payer of corall beds gauded with xxxviij gaudyes of sylver and gylte.
1552 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 144 My beades gauded gold.
2. To ornament, adorn, make showy.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > ornament
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fay?c1225
rustc1275
duba1300
shrouda1300
adorna1325
flourishc1325
apparel1366
depaintc1374
dressa1375
raila1375
anorna1382
orna1382
honourc1390
paintc1390
pare1393
garnisha1400
mensk?a1400
apykec1400
hightlec1400
overfretc1440
exornc1450
embroider1460
repair1484
empare1490
ornate1490
bedo?a1500
purfle?a1500
glorify?1504
betrap1509
broider1509
deck?1521
likelya1522
to set forth1530
exornate1539
grace1548
adornate1550
fardc1550
gaud1554
pink1558
bedeck1559
tight1572
begaud1579
embellish1579
bepounce1582
parela1586
flower1587
ornify1590
illustrate1592
tinsel1594
formalize1595
adore1596
suborn1596
trapper1597
condecorate1599
diamondize1600
furnish1600
enrich1601
mense1602
prank1605
overgreen1609
crown1611
enjewel1611
broocha1616
varnish1641
ornament1650
array1652
bedub1657
bespangle1675
irradiate1717
gem1747
begem1749
redeck1771
blazon1813
aggrace1825
diamond1839
panoply1851
1554 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 146 My best cassocke gawded wt velvet.
1559 T. Becon Displaying Popish Masse in Wks. (1563) iii. 36 b Thys your fooles cote, gayly gawded, signifieth youre pleasaunte fynenesse and womanly nicenesse.
Derivatives
ˈgauded adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > [adjective] > ornamented or decorated
depaint?c1225
ornedc1384
trappeda1400
attiredc1400
bolled1400
picked?c1425
bedighta1440
garnishedc1440
well-apparelledc1450
decorate1460
adorned?1473
ornate?a1475
anorneda1500
decked?a1500
exornate1509
redimite?a1513
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adornate1539
prankedc1550
entrapped?1553
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gayed1671
fancied1688
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decorated1727
ornamented1730
orné1763
got-up1793
gotten-up1796
apparelled1821
engrailed1848
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 214 Their nicely gawded Cheekes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
† gaudv.2
intransitive. To make merry; to sport, jest; to scoff (at).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (intransitive)]
bourd1303
japec1374
rail?1507
gaud1532
mow1559
railly1612
rally1625
banter1660
badiner1697
chaffa1845
josh1845
persiflate1850
to poke (the) borak1882
kibitz1923
to take the mickey (out of)1948
mickey-take1959
society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)]
to make feast?c1225
to make merryc1330
merrymakec1395
to have a good (bad, etc.) time (of it, formerly on it)1509
to make pleasant1530
gaud1532
to play the goodfellow1563
company1591
junket1607
rage1979
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 366/2 And yf [the battle] walke on your syde then [you] gawde and glory.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Cert. Places Holy Script. i, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 373 More reasonable it were for vain man to learn and reverence the form of God's words, than to gaud at them to his damnation.
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xxxii. f. 64 In carpinge gaudinge and iestinge at yonge gentlemen, and specially olde men.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Dii/2 To Gaude scoffe, scommari, nugari.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 562 He was sporting and gauding with his familiars.
Derivatives
ˈgauding n.
ΚΠ
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. iv. sig. E.ij What gaudyng and foolyng is this afore my doore?
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