GIMCRACK

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

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Etymology

Adjective

gimcrack (not comparable)

Showy but of poor quality; worthless.

Noun

gimcrack (plural gimcracks)

Something showy but worthless; a gimmick or bauble.

Verb

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

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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

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