Gaud

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  • noun. A gaudy or showy ornament or trinket.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To sport; jest; make merry.
  • To adorn with gauds or trinkets; decorate meretriciously; paint, as the cheeks.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint.
  • intransitive verb. To sport or keep festival.
  • noun. Trick; jest; sport.
  • noun. Deceit; fraud; artifice; device.
  • noun. An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a cheap showy trinket
  • verb. To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
  • Word Usage
    "Such gaud is characteristic of the spiritual harlot (Re 17: 4)."
    Form
    gauded  gauding  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    adornment  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    artifice  deceit  device  fraud  gewgaw