| Gaud 1. (n.) Trick; jest; sport. 2. (n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice; device. 3. (n.) An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. 4. (n.) To sport or keep festival. 5. (v. t.) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint. Thesaurus Entries a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, button, cent, curio, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, hair, halfpenny, hardly anything, hill of beans, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, mere nothing, minikin, mockery, molehill, next to nothing, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, rap, red cent, row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, straw, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, whim-wham |