plural of gaud

A cheap showy trinket / (obsolete) trick; jest; sport / (obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice

(obsolete) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.

To sport or keep festival.

(obsolete) joyful; showy

simple past tense and past participle of gaud

present participle of gaud