Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A decorative trinket; a bauble.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Showy; unreal; pretentious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble.
- adj. Showy; unreal; pretentious.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A showy trifle; a pretty thing of little worth; a toy; a bauble; a gaudy plaything or ornament.
- n. A pipe or flute.
- n. A Jew′ s-harp.
- Showy, without substantial use or worth.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
Etymologies
Examples
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For profit -- his life blood transmuted into a wine-supper, or a jewelled gewgaw, or some similar sense-orgy of the parasitic and idle rich, his masters, the arch-beasts. '
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Yet, if they won, they would be buying both the gewgaw and a print-out of the story.
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I had no problems w/the scent/aroma of da Quarter (aside from Bourbon St. which I generally avoid when in town - tho 'Yesteryear's always has some gewgaw I must possess).
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Grab the first gewgaw and just do it, quick, like ripping off a Band-Aid.
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Sadly, the book prizes are restricted to residents of the British isles, but as a compensation a further 3 correct entries from outwith these sceptered isles will receive a nifty wee promotional-type gewgaw currently to be decided upon.
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That just seems common sense at this point: that ‘brand’ is about all the touchpoints with your customers and partners, not just your logo, and not just the latest RIA gewgaw on your homepage.
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Mathayus plans to journey to Egypt to get a mystical weapon to help him defeat the evil Sargon, but quickly learns that he must get a different magic gewgaw, the sword of Damocles, in order to kill his foe.
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Hunting through the yard sales, second hand shops, and antique malls for a gewgaw is delightful challenge.
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Alas, I cannot find it in my eleemosynary nature to weep a solitary tear for this haut bourgeois pretender and his gewgaw-bearing mate.
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Handsome settlements, and a chariot, that tempting gewgaw to the vanity of the middling class of females, were the least that she proposed to herself.
vendingmachine commented on the word gewgaw
"His father had inspired him with a horror of jewellery; for once, when he had spent the savings of a month upon a cheap scarf-pin, the elder Armstrong had wrathfully asked him what he meant by sticking that brass-headed nail in his chest, and had thrown the gewgaw into the fire."
May 2, 2016
en_dash commented on the word gewgaw
antonym: Le Corbusier
May 2, 2007
uselessness commented on the word gewgaw
It means, well, me. In a nutshell.
(You may also find the dictionary link above to be helpful. But like I said, it means me.)
March 23, 2007
mager commented on the word gewgaw
what does this mean?
March 23, 2007