gourde
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English
Etymology
From French, originally meaning “heavy, clumsy”. Cognate with Haitian Creole goud.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɡʊəd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ɡʊɹd/
- enPR: go͝ord
- Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)d
Noun
gourde (plural gourdes)
- The currency of Haiti, divided into 100 centimes.
- 1983 December 24, Andrea Loewenstein, “"What's Freedom Without Food In Your Stomach?" — A Trip to Haiti”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 8:
- Small boys eager to help in return for a gourd or two.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old French coorde, cohourde, with later voicing of initial c-, from Latin cucurbita. Doublet of courge (from the form cohourge). Compare English gourd.
Noun
gourde f (plural gourdes)
- gourd
- (by extension) water bottle; flask; canteen (water bottle used by soldiers, camper etc.)
Etymology 2
Influenced by the adjective gourd (“clumsy”).
Noun
gourde f (plural gourdes)
- (colloquial) clot, dope; idiot
- gourde (currency of Haiti)
Adjective
gourde
Further reading
- “gourde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman gourde, gurde, from Latin cucurbita.
Pronunciation
Noun
gourde (plural gourdes)
- A plant of the family Cucurbitaceae; a gourd or similar plant.
- The fruit of such a plant.
Descendants
- English: gourd
References
- “gǒurd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norman
Adjective
gourde