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Bourd vs Bouri - What's the difference?

bourd | bouri |

As nouns the difference between bourd and bouri

is that bourd is a joke; jesting, banter while bouri is a mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of southern Europe and in Africa.

As a verb bourd

is to jest.

bourd

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A joke; jesting, banter.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
    • The wisard could no lenger beare her bord, / But brusting forth in laughter, to her sayd; / Glauce, what needs this colourable word [...]?

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To jest.
    • (Chaucer)
    (Webster 1913)

    bouri

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mullet (Mugil capito ) found in the rivers of southern Europe and in Africa.
    • (Webster 1913)