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Bourd vs Bourn - What's the difference?

bourd | bourn |

As nouns the difference between bourd and bourn

is that bourd is a joke; jesting, banter while bourn is a small stream or brook.

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)

    bourn

    English

    Etymology 1

    Doublet of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small stream or brook.
  • * Spenser
    • My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn .
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) borne.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • destination
  • limit

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "bourn")

    See also

    * bourne

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