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| English Dictionary: gimcrack |
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| 2 results for gimcrack |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- gimcrack
- adj
- tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring";
"garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
Synonym(s): brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
- n
- ornamental objects of no great value [syn: folderal,
falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery]
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Gimcrack \Gim"crack`\, n. [OE., a spruce and pert pretender,
also, a spruce girl, prob. fr. gim + crack lad, boaster.]
A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.
--Arbuthnot.
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