Definitions
Too bright, showy, or flashy.
Word origin
From Middle English gaudi, from Old French gaudie, from Medieval Latin gaudia. equivalent to gaud (“ornament, trinket”) + -y.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“A faded, and an ancient dragon he was; and many a wintry storm of rain, snow, sleet, and hail, had changed his colour from a gaudy blue to a faint lack-lustre shade of gray.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Flashily bright”5 letters
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