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Bourd
Bourd
,Noun.
[F.
bourde
fib, lie, OF. borde
, bourde
, jest, joke.] A jest.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Bourd
,Verb.
I.
To jest.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Definition 2024
bourd
bourd
English
Noun
bourd (plural bourds)
- (obsolete) A joke; jesting, banter.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
- The wisard could no lenger beare her bord, / But brusting forth in laughter, to her sayd; / Glauce, what needs this colourable word [...]?
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
Verb
bourd (third-person singular simple present bourds, present participle bourding, simple past and past participle bourded)
- (obsolete) To jest.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)