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gaudy

adjective
🔊/ˈɡɔːdi/
🔊/ˈɡɔːdi/
(comparative gaudier, superlative gaudiest)
(disapproving)
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  1. too brightly coloured in a way that lacks taste俗艳的；花哨的 synonym garish
    • gaudy clothes/colours过于花哨的衣服／色彩
    Topics Clothes and Fashionc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryGaudy is used with these nouns:
    • colour
    • jewellery
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    Word Originlate 15th cent.: probably from gaud ‘a showy and ornamental thing’ + -y.

gaudy

noun
🔊/ˈɡɔːdi/
🔊/ˈɡɔːdi/
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  1. the name used in some colleges at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge for the special dinner for former students that takes place each year