gawdy

English

Adjective

gawdy (comparative gawdier, superlative gawdiest)

  1. Archaic form of gaudy.
    • 1836-37, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
      On his head he wore one of the common eighteenpenny French skull-caps, with a gawdy tassel dangling therefrom, very happily in keeping with a common fustian coat.
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