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Synonyms for gewgaw
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : gyoo-gaw, goo- |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈgyu gɔ, ˈgu- |
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Définition of gewgaw
Origin :- early 13c., giuegaue, contemptuous reduplication, possibly connected with Old French gogue "rejoicing, jubilation; joke, prank, mockery, game;" or jou-jou "toy," baby-talk word, from jouer "to play," from Latin jocare (see joke).
- noun novelty
- Then sprang into existence the tawdry, the common, the gewgaw.
- Extract from : « The Gentle Art of Making Enemies » by James McNeill Whistler
- And all of them with some gewgaw to be blessed in the Virgin's bowl.
- Extract from : « A Little Pilgrimage in Italy » by Olave M. (Olave Muriel) Potter
- Some of them have been won by a mess of pottage, a mere bauble or a gewgaw.
- Extract from : « Prisons and Prayer: Or a Labor of Love » by Elizabeth Ryder Wheaton
- To the gewgaw fetters of rhyme (invented by the monks to enslave the people) I have a rooted objection.
- Extract from : « Rejected Addresses » by James Smith
- At her disposal was wealth without stint, every luxury the soft could desire, every gewgaw the vain could covet.
- Extract from : « What Will He Do With It, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Gimcrack, jim′krak, n. a toy: a gewgaw: a trivial mechanism—also Jim′crack.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
- Compare it for a moment with the gewgaw skimble-skamble diplomatic sensationalism with which we have been presented since.
- Extract from : « The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 » by Various
- The crown of my fathers has shrunk into a gewgaw and a toy,—their ambition and their spirit are undecayed.
- Extract from : « Zicci, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Here again the gewgaw of royal parade was intended to entrap the admiration of the ignorant.
- Extract from : « Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) » by Lady Anne Hamilton
- Everything was in its proper place, not an ornament missing; not a gewgaw disturbed.
- Extract from : « Wanted: A Cook » by Alan Dale
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