† gaudishadj.
Obsolete.
a. ? Trivial, idle, scoffing (cf. gaud n.2 1).
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1538 Bale God's Promises Prol., in I. Reed Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Plays (1780) I. 8 Ye may loke to have no tryfeling sporte In fantasyes fayned, nor such lyke gaudysh gere.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 298/2 [He] was wont to make many rimes, and gaudishe prose, to delite the eares of ye multitude.
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b. Gaudy, showy (rare; implied in the derivatives).
Derivatives
ˈgaudishly adv.
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1677 Compl. Servant-maid 114 It is more commendable to go decent and clean, than gaudishly fine.
ˈgaudishness n.
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1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxxvi. 773 If they vse any gaudishnes and make themselues to bee as gasing stocks.
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