>Psalm 84, began: "Gaudete in Domino semper"
The Psalms were written in Latin???
But this made me look up gaud and gaudy in the dictionary to see if there might be a connection. gaud comes from ME gaude, a trinket, while the adjective gaudy in the dictionary I have at hand has no derivation, so I assume it goes back to gaud for an explanation of its origin.
BUT! There is a noun gaudy which comes from ME gaude, ornamental rosary bead, which comes in turn from gaudium, joy in Latin, and ultimately from gaudere to rejoice. But what is a gaudy, you might ask? It's not a bead, it is a chiefly British word for a feast, especially an annual university dinner.
Whee! I LOVE English and the way we've derived words. I can't wait to get home to the OED and see how gaudere became an annual dinner.
There was a young lady so baudy,
She'd jump from a cake at a gaudy,
The men liked the icing
That looked so enticing,
And she'd let them lick at her body.
PLOP!!!!!
