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Gaud vs Gard - What's the difference?

gaud | gard |

As nouns the difference between gaud and gard

is that gaud is a cheap showy trinket while gard is a deed, an action, a cost.

As a verb gaud

is (obsolete) to bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint or gaud can be to sport or keep festival.

gaud

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • a cheap showy trinket
  • * Shakespeare
    • an idle gaud
  • * 1926 Dalmeny lent me red tabs, Evans his brass hat; so that I had the gauds of my appointment in the ceremony of the Jaffa gate, which for me was the supreme moment of the war. - T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  • (obsolete) trick; jest; sport
    • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice
    • (Chaucer)
    Related terms
    * gaudy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.
    • Nicely gauded cheeks. — Shakespeare.

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sport or keep festival.
  • * Sir T. North
    • gauding with his familiars

    gard

    English

    Etymology 1

    See (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A garden.
  • *
    • Trees of the gard .

    Etymology 2

    See (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
    • (Webster 1913) ----