Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A decorative trinket; a bauble.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A showy trifle; a pretty thing of little worth; a toy; a bauble; a gaudy plaything or ornament.
- noun A pipe or flute.
- noun A Jew′ s-harp.
- Showy, without substantial use or worth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble.
- adjective Showy; unreal; pretentious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Showy ;unreal ;pretentious .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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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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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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Yet, if they won, they would be buying both the gewgaw and a print-out of the story.
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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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Hunting through the yard sales, second hand shops, and antique malls for a gewgaw is delightful challenge.
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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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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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Alas, I cannot find it in my eleemosynary nature to weep a solitary tear for this haut bourgeois pretender and his gewgaw-bearing mate.
mager commented on the word gewgaw
what does this mean?
March 23, 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
en_dash commented on the word gewgaw
antonym: Le Corbusier
May 2, 2007
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