different between gaud vs yaud

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

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?]. Originally used to mean "mare", then "old mare". From Old Norse jalda (“mare”), from a Uralic language, such as Moksha ????? (el?de) or Erzya ????? (el?de).

This term influenced and was influenced by jade, but is considered etymologically distinct by some references, while others consider the two terms to be variants of one another.

Noun

yaud (plural yauds)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A workhorse; an old or worn-out mare.
   • 1814, Walter Scott, Waverley, Or 'tis Sixty Years Since, 1821, Volume 2, 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."

   • a. 1835, James Hogg, Seeking the Houdy, 2006, The Collected Works of James Hogg: Contributions to Annuals and Gift-books, 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.

   • 1846, Moses Aaron Richardson, The Local Historian's Table Book, of Remarkable Occurrences, 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."

Synonyms

• (old horse): jade

References

Anagrams

• yadu