gaud

Meanings

1. A cheap showy trinket
2. trick; jest; sport
3. deceit; fraud; artifice

1. To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.

1. To sport or keep festival.

1. Alternative form of Gaur (“ancient Bengali city”).

Etymology

From Middle English gaude, gawde (“jest, prank, trick; ornamental bead in a rosary, trinket, bauble”). Compare Middle English gaudy, gaudee, of the same meaning.