gewgaw

4 definitions found

gewgaw - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gewgaw \Gew"gaw\, n. [OE. gigawe, gugawe, gewgaude, prob. the
     same word as OE. givegove gewgaw, apparently a reduplicated
     form fr. AS. gifan to give; cf. also F. joujou plaything, and
     E. gaud, n. See Give, and cf. Giffgaff.]
     A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but
     worthless bauble.
  
     Syn: knicknack; bauble; tschotschke.
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                A heavy gewgaw called a crown.      --Dryden.
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  Gewgaw \Gew"gaw\, a.
     Showy; unreal; pretentious.
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           Seeing his gewgaw castle shine.          --Tennyson.
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gewgaw - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  gewgaw
      n 1: cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle,
           bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal, trinket]

gewgaw - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  100 Moby Thesaurus words for "gewgaw":
     a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, agate, bagatelle,
     ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, bean, bibelot, bijou,
     bit, blocks, brass farthing, bric-a-brac, button, cent,
     checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, cricket bat, cue, curio,
     doll, doll carriage, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite,
     folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gimcrack, golf club, hair,
     halfpenny, hill of beans, hobbyhorse, jack-in-the-box, jacks,
     jackstones, jackstraws, jest, joke, kickshaw, knack, knickknack,
     knickknackery, marble, marionette, mig, minikin, mockery, molehill,
     novelty, paper doll, peppercorn, picayune, pick-up sticks, pin,
     pinch of snuff, pinprick, pinwheel, plaything, puppet, racket,
     rag doll, rap, red cent, rocking horse, row of pins, rush, shit,
     snap, sneeshing, sou, sport, steelie, straw, taw, teetotum, top,
     toy, toy soldier, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents,
     twopence, vanity, whatnot, whim-wham