n. Jest; joke; sport; pastime; trick; artifice.n. A piece of showy finery; a gay trapping, trinket, or the like; any object of ostentation or exultation.n. Same as gaudy, 3.To sport; jest; make merry.To adorn with gauds or trinkets; decorate meretriciously; paint, as the cheeks.n. A Scotch form of goad and of gad, 5.