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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gewgaw \Gew"gaw\, a.
Showy; unreal; pretentious.
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Seeing his gewgaw castle shine. --Tennyson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gewgaw
n : cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle,
bauble, gaud, novelty, fallal, trinket]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, novelty, trinket
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