Definitions for gaudies

gaudies gaud·y

Spelling: [gaw-dee]
IPA: /ˈgɔ di/

Gaudies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in gaudies (adegisu).

Definitions for gaudies

noun

  1. a festival or celebration, especially an annual college feast.

adjective

  1. brilliantly or excessively showy:
  2. cheaply showy in a tasteless way; flashy.
  3. ostentatiously ornamented; garish.

Origin of gaudies

1520-30; orig. attributive use of gaudy2; later taken as a derivative of gaud

Examples for gaudies

She was dressed in a gaudy old calico gown, and had earrings in her ears.

U2 dropped a new single amidst the gaudy commercials on Super Bowl Sunday.

All are thick and rich, none are glazed, and none are gaudy.

In this narrative, the disgraced former President with his gaudy taste for golden toilets and exotic zoos, is cast as the Joker.

Thankful held the gaudy ring at arm's length and stared at it helplessly.

A thousand soldiers, in their most gaudy attire, composed his train.

Piracy in the past has acquired the gaudy technicolor of high romance.

She was a novelty item, presented in gaudy wrapping paper by a desperate John McCain to a jaded mainstream media.

Very few boys in Baltimore had been to bed that night: The show was altogether too gaudy.

There is a purity that extends from north Orlando to this gathering of gaudy dilettantes.

Word Value for gaudies
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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