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gourd

[ gawrd, gohrd, goord ]

noun

  1. the hard-shelled fruit of any of various plants, especially those of Lagenaria siceraria white-flowered gourd, or bottle gourd, whose dried shell is used for bowls and other utensils, and Cucurbita pepo yellow-flowered gourd, used ornamentally. Compare gourd family.
  2. a plant bearing such a fruit.
  3. a dried and excavated gourd shell used as a bottle, dipper, flask, etc.
  4. a gourd-shaped, small-necked bottle or flask.


gourd

/ ɡʊəd /

noun

  1. the fruit of any of various cucurbitaceous or similar plants, esp the bottle gourd and some squashes, whose dried shells are used for ornament, drinking cups, etc
  2. any plant that bears this fruit See also sour gourd dishcloth gourd calabash
  3. a bottle or flask made from the dried shell of the bottle gourd
  4. a small bottle shaped like a gourd
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈgourdˌlike, adjective
  • ˈgourd-ˌshaped, adjective
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Other Words From

  • gourdlike adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gourd1

First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English gourd(e), courde, from Anglo-French ( Old French cöorde ), from Latin cucurbita
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gourd1

C14: from Old French gourde, ultimately from Latin cucurbita
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. out of / off one's gourd, Slang. out of one's mind; crazy.
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Example Sentences

Holding the first pumpkin by its stem, slowly and steadily submerge the entire gourd into the tub.

In a recent interview, Sona Jobarteh, a musician and composer from Gamba in West Africa, a virtuoso on the Kora, a multi-stringed lute with a gourd body, explained her music did not mean the same to all listeners.

Preachers and Hackmen Thrive Through Novel Industry which Sprang into Existence as Rapidly as Jonah’s Gourd When Delaware Adopted Laws Correcting Evils of Its Lax License System.

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I will cook, and I’m setting up a fall table with leaf and gourd decorations and a sweet pecan pie candle.

Teammates would get calls from Ellis out of his gourd at 3:30 a.m. on nights before games.

Instead, Violet is kidnapped and solid to a rival courtesan house, where she is trained by an older courtesan named Magic Gourd.

The woman who was the spokesperson held out a calabash, a hollowed out gourd traditionally used to hold the cutters' instruments.

One is simply composed of a crooked stick, a small hollow gourd, and a single string of brass wire.

See Fig. 85, a copy of a broken sepulchral slab, in which the prophets booth is reduced to a single branch of a gourd.

With that he took a big gourd from the corner and painted a face on it with a piece of charcoal found in the fireplace.

Through the opening he slowly pushed the gourd, topped by the hat and having long hair hanging down the sides.

I have a clear picture of the warrior holding the 247 end of the cord calling for some one to bring a gourd of water.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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