Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of gewgaw.
Examples
“What women see in such gewgaws is a puzzler to me.”
“She carries many other items as well, intriguing tchatkas and gewgaws, a few clothes, house and garden items even.”
“The Ladies' Market is popular with both locals and tourists looking for products such as clothing, toys and gewgaws.”
“The Ladies' Market, where the fire broke out, runs along Fa Yuen Street and is popular among both locals and tourists looking for bargains in clothing, toys and gewgaws.”
“Why use this when Picasa offers a whole panoply of filters and gewgaws.”
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“The fear expressed by some – Donaldson among them – has been that visual gewgaws and interactive gimmicks will distract children from the written word.”
The Guardian: Don't fear the Reader: how technology can benefit children's books
“More promotional stuff for The Red Tree, and it's actually rather fun, putting these peculiar artifacts and metafictional gewgaws together.”
“The multifaceted New York-based musician is renowned for his kaleidoscopic array of gewgaws and gadgets repurposed for performances by a one-man gonzo orchestra with occasional guests and audience participation.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Mad Scientist of Musical Machinery
“An economy that is dependent on people buying things they don't need, ever new gewgaws and gadgets, with money they don't have, is not worth saving.”
The Huffington Post: Dale Pendell: An Economy Not Worth Saving
“This is, after all, a workie with access to a lot more ormolu gewgaws and Georgian plate than most and Granny and Grandpa can't leave everything to the corgis.”
The Guardian: This week: George Osborne, Stanley McChrystal and Princess Eugenie
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gewgaws’.
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SCIE - Be the first...
... to use these words in spoken English and reap esteem. In the SPOKEN corpus of the COCA (full corpus: 450 million words) none of these occur.
stochastic, disputant, state-led, almshouse, exceptionality, bibliographical, t-test, z-score, personal/social, neoplastic, stroma, ludic and 288 more...
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Bike Snob'isms
words I saw while reading the Bike Snob
helment, scranus, podium, sangue borse, hipster, dandydom, effete, douchebag, douchebags, Lobweh, Portland, brakeless track bike and 365 more...
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Les Misérables
A selection of words from the epic by Victor Hugo
perquisites, dispensations, execrate, spikenard, fireplaace, effeminate foppery, delaine, hoarfrost, lackadaisicalness, ort, geldings, milch and 103 more...
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josepherobertson@gmail.com's Words
focalization, buttmunch, ridiculosity, flibbertigibbet, megafucks, pilfer-proof, scary-accurate, tintinnabulation, dyspeptic, brainfag, tchochke, knackered and 43 more...
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My Dictionary
jeremiad, apotheosis, blousy, craven, deflation, disinflation, equivocate, idyll, intransigent, malfeasance, nemesis, nihilism and 24 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gewgaws.
sera Gewgaws Vs. Gimcracks on Postcards from Yo Mamma:
"My dear as a matter of fact I have been a collector of gewgaws for all my life. I believe gew gaws is a northern word and gimcracks southern. Added to this I take umbrage with the connotation that they are gaudy. They are indeed beeuuteeful.
Love, Mom" May 11, 2008