gaudy /ˈɡɔːdi/adjective 2noun 2forms 3 adjective2 •Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.They were all trapped out in the gaudiest of clothes. •(no longer used) Fun; merry; festive.Let's have one other gaudy night. — 1606 noun2 •A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally during the long vacation.And since then, Mary had married and scarcely been heard of; except that she had haunted the College with a sick persistence, never missing an Old Students’ Meeting or a Gaudy. — 1935 •(no longer used) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.The circling year was to him like the rosary over which he recited his aves and paternosters; the “gaudies” or larger beads were the holidays set at regular intervals along the string, […] — 1919 formsgaudies · gaudier · gaudiest
