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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
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
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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