Word.ws English Dictionary

bourded

bourded is the simple past and past participle of bourd.

Meaning of bourd

Noun

bourd (plural bourds)

  1. (obsolete) A joke; jesting, banter.
    • The wisard could no lenger beare her bord,
      But brusting forth in laughter, to her sayd;
      Glauce, what needs this colourable word […] ?1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii

Questions about bourded

What is bourded the simple past and past participle of?
Bourded is the simple past and past participle of bourd.

Words near bourded in the dictionary

  1. bourd
  2. Bourdain
  3. Bourdeau
  4. Bourdeaus
  5. Bourdeaux turpentine
  6. bourded
  7. bourder
  8. bourders
  9. Bourdieu
  10. Bourdieuan
  11. Bourdieusian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bourded (page history and authors); bourd (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bourded.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bourded. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.