sard

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
5
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/sɑː(ɹ)d/

Definition of sard

4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
  2. (countable, uncountable)Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.

verb

  1. (obsolete)To have sexual intercourse with (a woman).
    “Quhilk will, for purging of thir neirs: / Sard up the ta raw, and doun the uther.”
    “Foltere. To iape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupye.”
    “[…] and thence ſprouteth that obſcene appellation of Sarding ſandes, with the draffe of the carterly Hoblobs thereabouts, concoct or diſgeaſt for a ſcripture, verity, when the right chriſtendome of it, is Cerdicke ſands, or Cerdick ſhore, […]”
    “Go, teach your grandam to sard, a Nottingham proverb.”

name

  1. Synonym of Sardinian (“a Romance language”).

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Etymology

From Middle English sarde, borrowed from Old French sarde, from Latin sarda, sardius. Doublet of sardius.

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