bourd
English
Etymology
From Middle English bourde, from Old French bourde.
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 […] ?
Derived terms
References
- “bourd”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
bourd
- alternative form of bord
Etymology 2
Noun
bourd
- alternative form of bourde