different between gaud vs maud

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d/
• Homophones: god (in accents with the cot-caught merger), gored (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English gaude, gawde (“jest, prank, trick; ornamental bead in a rosary, trinket, bauble”). Compare Middle English gaudy, gaudee, of the same meaning.

Noun

gaud (plural gauds)

1. a cheap showy trinket
   • 1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (published 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.

2. (obsolete) trick; jest; sport
3. (obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice

Translations

Related terms

• gaudy

Verb

gaud (third-person singular simple present gauds, present participle gauding, simple past and past participle gauded)

1. (obsolete) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.

Etymology 2

Compare French gaudir (“to rejoice”).

Verb

gaud (third-person singular simple present gauds, present participle gauding, simple past and past participle gauded)

1. To sport or keep festival.
   • 1579, Thomas North, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes

     gauding with his familiars

Anagrams

• Guad.

Ilocano

Noun

gaud

1. paddle; oar

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

gaud

1. paddle; oar

English

Noun

maud (plural mauds)

1. A grey plaid once worn by shepherds in Scotland and Northumbria.

Anagrams

• Duma, duma, muda

Estonian

Noun

maud

1. nominative plural of magu