The story
- Old French · derived fromgoliard“glutton”
- English todayGoliard
Uncertain, possibly from Old French goliard (“glutton”); compare Italian goliardo (“university student”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
goliard
Today it means: A wandering student of the 12th or 13th century, whose convivial lifestyle included minstrelsy and a typical satirical Latin poetry. Full definition →
Old French goliard