- 1俗麗的、花俏刺眼的
Clothes, colours, or decorations that are gaudy are too bright and , and they look cheap. It is a word of dislike: a gaudy shirt, gaudy jewellery, a gaudy hotel lobby. The problem is not colour itself — a red coat can be lovely — but colour and shine piled on until the thing feels loud and tasteless. People use it of cheap gold, , neon, and tourist . Though actually, the same spelling has another, much smaller life in old British university talk: a gaudy can be a college feast or reunion dinner. That sense is special and formal; the meaning meet is almost always the cheap-bright one. A common story says the word comes from Antoni Gaudí, the Barcelona architect; that is not true. The English word is far older than he was. Scholars give two older paths: from a French word linked to Latin gaudia, “joy,” and the idea of cheap ornaments; or from an old word for a yellow dye-plant, so “yellowish” then “.” Either way, it is not from the architect.
組成From Middle English gaudi, from Old French gaudie, from Medieval Latin gaudia (joys), like gaud (a cheap ornament) + -y. Another account traces it to an old word for a yellow dye-plant (weld). It does not come from the architect Gaudí.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gaudyadj詞源 1/ˈɡɔːdi/
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Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.
- Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy.
- Though, I confeſs, Paris has its Charms; but to me they are like thoſe of a Coquette, gay and gavvdy; they ſerve to amuſe vvith, but a Man vvould not chuſe to be marry'd to them.
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obsoleteFun; merry; festive.
- Let's have one other gaudy night.
- And for my strange petition I will make Amends hereafter by some gaudy day
gaudynoun詞源 1/ˈɡɔːdi/
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archaicOne of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
- In 1458, the owner of the precious book, which had been taken from the martyr’s body at the block, left a rosary of 50 coral beads with gold gaudies, to his “beloved, most blessed Saint Richard Scrope,” to help in his canonization, with a prayer to God that it might be granted of His great grace.
- The circling year was to him like the rosary over which he recited his aves and paternosters; the “gaudies” or larger beads were the holidays set at regular intervals along the string, […]
gaudynoun詞源 2/ˈɡɔːdi/
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A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally during the long vacation.
- And since then, Mary had married and scarcely been heard of; except that she had haunted the College with a sick persistence, never missing an Old Students’ Meeting or a Gaudy.
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