Gaudi

What it means

1. 1.

   Fun, a laugh, a good time — Bavarian and Austrian. 'Eine Gaudi' is a specific occasion of fun, not the abstract quality.

2. 2.

   The gender is unsettled: die Gaudi in Bavaria, das Gaudi in much of Austria and Swabia. Both are correct in their own place.

Examples with translations

• Des war a Gaudi!

  That was an absolute laugh!

  Note: Bavarian pronunciation of 'das war eine Gaudi'.

• Nur zur Gaudi, nicht ernst gemeint.

  Just for a laugh, not meant seriously.

Where it comes from

From Latin gaudium, 'joy', by way of the macaronic Latin of students and monastery schools — the same route that gave Gaudeamus igitur. It survived in the Catholic south and never crossed north.

Other forms

Similar terms:

Hetz, Spaß