Gaud vs Yaud - What's the difference?
gaud | yaud |
a cheap showy trinket
* Shakespeare
* 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
(obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice
(obsolete) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.
(Scotland, Northern England) A workhorse; an old or worn-out mare.
* 1814', '', ' 1821 , Volume 2,
* , Seeking the Houdy'', 2006 , ''The Collected Works of James Hogg: Contributions to Annuals and Gift-books ,
* 1846 , Moses Aaron Richardson, The Local Historian's Table Book, of Remarkable Occurrences ,
As nouns the difference between gaud and yaud
is that gaud is a cheap showy trinket while yaud is a workhorse; an old or worn-out mare.As a verb gaud
is to bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.gaud
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- an idle gaud
- (Chaucer)
- (Chaucer)
Verb
(en verb)- Nicely gauded cheeks. — Shakespeare.
Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) .yaud
English
Noun
(en noun)page 98,
- "Nay by my faith, if you be so heavy, I will content me with the best of you, and that's the haunch and the nombles, and e'en heave up the rest on the old oak-tree yonder, and come for it with one of the yauds ."
page 60,
- "Get on, my fine yaud , get on! There is nothing uncanny there."
- Robin coaxed thus, as well to keep up his own spirits, as to encourage his mare; for the truth is, that his hair began to stand on end with affright.
page 106,
- he threw it overboard, subjecting it to a spell, that it never should be removed save by the co-operation of "Two twin yauds'' , two twin oxen, two twin lads, and a chain forged by a ''smith of kind ."
