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Bourd vs Burd - What's the difference?

bourd | burd |

As nouns the difference between bourd and burd

is that bourd is (obsolete) a joke; jesting, banter while burd is poetic maiden, young woman.

As a verb bourd

is (obsolete) 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)

    burd

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • poetic Maiden, young woman

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