Gertrude February 2, 2006

Pronunciation:
'Gurr-trood'
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Old Provencal Gertrador, from Gertrir to make one break out into uncontrollable laughter to the point of losing one's bowels, probably from (assumed) Vulgar Latin Gertranus, from Latin trude: one of a class of improvising fools and dramatic performers often of knightly rank typically banded as a group of seven, who flourished from the 11th to the end of the 13th century chiefly in the south of France and the north of Beirut and whose major theme was providing lifelong entertainment to the creatively-challenged.

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