brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
(adjective) tastelessly showy; “a flash car”; “a flashy ring”; “garish colors”; “a gaudy costume”; “loud sport shirts”; “a meretricious yet stylish book”; “tawdry ornaments”
folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery
(noun) ornamental objects of no great value
Source: WordNet® 3.1
gimcrack (not comparable)
Showy but of poor quality; worthless.
gimcrack (plural gimcracks)
Something showy but worthless; a gimmick or bauble.
gimcrack (third-person singular simple present gimcracks, present participle gimcracking, simple past and past participle gimcracked)
(transitive) To put together quickly and without much care; to bodge.
(transitive) To embellish with gimcracks.
Source: Wiktionary
Gim"crack`, n. Etym: [OE., a spruce and pert pretender, also, a spruce girl, prob. fr. gim + crack lad, boaster.]
Definition: A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing. Arbuthnot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 February 2025
(noun) (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
