About The Word Bauble
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Bauble
Bauble Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Bauble?
[n] cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing
[n] a mock scepter carried by a court jester Synonyms | Synonyms for Bauble: bangle | fallal | gaud | gewgaw | novelty | trinket Related Terms | Find terms related to Bauble: a continental | a curse | a damn | a darn | a hoot | agate | bagatelle | ball | baseball bat | bat | battledore | bean | bibelot | bit | blocks | brass farthing | bric-a-brac | button | cent | checkerboard | chessboard | club | cockhorse | cricket bat | cue | curio | dido | doll | doll carriage | farce | farthing | feather | fig | fleabite | folderol | fribble | frippery | gaud | gewgaw | 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 | ornament | 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 | whatnot | whim-wham See Also | scepter | sceptre | stuff | sundries | sundry | verge | wand | whatchamacallit | whatsis Bauble In Webster's Dictionary \Bau"ble\, n. [Cf. OF. baubel a child's plaything, F.
babiole, It. babbola, LL. baubellum gem, jewel, L. babulus, a
baburrus, foolish.]
1. A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay
and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
The ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod.
--Sheridan.
2. The fool's club. [Obs.] ``A fool's bauble was a short
stick with a head ornamented with an ass's ears
fantastically carved upon it.'' --Nares.
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