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Gauded vs Gauzed - What's the difference?

gauded | gauzed |

As verbs the difference between gauded and gauzed

is that gauded is (gaud) while gauzed is (gauze).

gauded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (gaud)

    • 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

    gauzed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gauze)

    • gauze

    English

    (wikipedia gauze)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
  • A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
  • A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
  • Wire gauze, used as fence.
  • Mist or haze

    • Verb

    (gauz)
  • To apply a dressing of gauze
  • To mist

    • See also

    * wire netting