About The Word Gimcrack

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Gimcrack

Gimcrack Meaning & Definition
Gimcrack Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Gimcrack: brassy | cheap | flash | flashy | garish | gaudy | in poor taste(p) | loud | meretricious | tacky | tasteless | tatty | tawdry | trashy

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

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Gimcrack In Webster's Dictionary

\Gim"crack`\, n. [OE., a spruce and pert pretender, also, a spruce girl, prob. fr. gim + crack lad, boaster.] A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing. --Arbuthnot.

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