gourde

gourd; water bottle; flask; canteen; clot, dope; idiot

Inherited from Old French coorde, cohourde, with later voicing of initial c-, from Latin cucurbita. Doublet of courge (from the form cohourge). Compare English gourd.

gourde (currency of Haiti); dollar coin

Borrowed from Spanish gordo. Influenced by the adjective gourd (“clumsy”).