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bourding

bourding is the present participle and gerund 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 bourding

What is bourding the present participle and gerund of?
Bourding is the present participle and gerund of bourd.

Words near bourding in the dictionary

  1. bourders
  2. Bourdieu
  3. Bourdieuan
  4. Bourdieusian
  5. Bourdin
  6. bourding
  7. bourdon
  8. bourdonnée
  9. bourdons
  10. bourds
  11. bourek

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