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. --Arbuthnot.
[1913 Webster]
2. A toy; a pretty thing; an ornamental object of no great
value.
Syn: trinket, gewgaw, knickknack, tchotchke.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC] gimcrackery
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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"
[syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy,
loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy]
WordNet (r) 2.0
115 Moby Thesaurus words for "gimcrack":
a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, agate, apparatus,
bagatelle, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, bean,
bibelot, bit, blocks, brass farthing, bric-a-brac, button, cent,
checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, contraption,
contrivance, cricket bat, cue, curio, device, doll, doll carriage,
farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble,
frippery, gadget, gaud, gewgaw, gimmick, gizmo, golf club, hair,
halfpenny, hand tool, hill of beans, hobbyhorse, implement,
instrument, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, jest,
joke, kickshaw, knack, knickknack, knickknackery, marble,
marionette, means, mechanical device, mig, minikin, mockery,
molehill, novelty, paper doll, peppercorn, picayune,
pick-up sticks, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pinwheel, plaything,
power tool, precision tool, puppet, racket, rag doll, rap,
red cent, rocking horse, row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing,
sou, speed tool, sport, steelie, straw, taw, teetotum, tool, top,
toy, toy soldier, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents,
twopence, utensil, whatnot, whim-wham
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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