dictionary definitions for "gimcrack"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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


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