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gaudy
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /????.di/
- (US) IPA(key): /???.di/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /???.di/
- Rhymes: -??di
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; perhaps from gaud (“ornament, trinket”) +? -y, perhaps ultimately from Old French gaudir (“to rejoice”).
Alternatively, from Middle English gaudi, gawdy (“yellowish”), from Old French gaude, galde (“weld (the plant)”), from Frankish *walda, from Proto-Germanic *walþ?, *walþij?, akin to Old English *weald, *wielde (>Middle English welde, wolde and Anglo-Latin walda (“alum”)), Middle Low German wolde, Middle Dutch woude. More at English weld.
A common claim that the word derives from Antoni Gaudí, designer of Barcelona's Sagrada Família Basilica, is incorrect: the word was in use centuries before Gaudí was born.
Adjective
gaudy (comparative gaudier, superlative gaudiest)
- very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of its proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.
- 2005, Thomas Hauser & Marilyn Cole Lownes, "How Bling-bling Took Over the Ring", The Observer, 9 January 2005
- Gaudy jewellery might offend some people's sense of style. But former heavyweight champion and grilling-machine entrepreneur George Foreman is philosophical about today's craze for bling-bling.
- (obsolete) fun; merry; festive
- And for my strange petition I will make
Amends hereafter by some gaudy day
- And for my strange petition I will make
- And then, there he was, slim and handsome, and dressed the gaudiest and prettiest you ever saw...
Synonyms
- (excessively showy): tawdry, flashy, garish, kitschy
- Thesaurus:gaudy
Derived terms
- gaudily
- gaudy night
Translations
Noun
gaudy (plural gaudies)
- One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)
Etymology 2
Latin gaudium (“joy”). Doublet of joy.
Noun
gaudy (plural gaudies)
- A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the summer vacations.
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gaudiness
English
Etymology
gaudy +? -ness
Noun
gaudiness (countable and uncountable, plural gaudinesses)
- Pretension in appearance; looking overly and distastefully adorned.
- Nearby residents don't want any gaudiness in the building's renovation: they want it to be tasteful and understated.
Related terms
- gaudy
Translations
Anagrams
- Agnus Deis
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