a. Obs. [f. BOURD sb. + -FUL.] Full of jesting or sport; jocose, sportive. Hence Bourdfully adv., in jest, in mockery.
1388. Wyclif, Wisd. i. 11, marg. Vndurstondun of a dedly leesing, not of a bourdeful leesing.
a. 1400. Miracle-pl., in Rel. Ant., II. 45. Bourdfully takyng Goddis biddynge or wordis or werkis is scornyng of him.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 3952. [Antenor] delited hym in myrthe, Bourdfull among buernes.
1496. Dives & Paup. (W. de Worde), VIII. ii. 322/2. Called in latyn iocosum, that is bourdfull in Englysshe.
