Synonyms for gimcrack

Grammar : Noun

Spell : jim-krak

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɪmˌkræk

Définition of gimcrack

Origin : 1610s, "showy person;" sense of "trifle" first recorded 1839; of uncertain origin, perhaps alteration of gibecrake, a kind of ornament on wooden furniture (mid-14c.), perhaps from Old French giber "to rattle, shake" + Middle English crak "sharp noise, crack." In 18c.-19c. it also meant "a person who has a turn for mechanical contrivances."

noun gewgaw

Example sentences :

I will buy her the necklace she scolded me about at Lacy and Gimcrack's; it's just the sum.
Extract from : « The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 » by Various

A nice set you must be to give your gimcrack craft such a name as that!
Extract from : « Fitz the Filibuster » by George Manville Fenn

The Gothic souls find fault with it, and say it is gimcrack and tawdry and cheap.
Extract from : « Aaron's Rod » by D. H. Lawrence

As a rule, they are of a flimsy and gimcrack order of architecture.
Extract from : « The Turkish Bath » by Robert Owen Allsop

He then thought of what a fool he had been to give her back that gimcrack pistol.
Extract from : « The Peace of Roaring River » by George van Schaick

The work-bag, I'll bet you all I am worth, has not a gimcrack in it that is not her own.'
Extract from : « The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) » by Fanny Burney

Not mastery of oneself—just gimcrack, made-in-Birmingham mastery.
Extract from : « The Book of This and That » by Robert Lynd

And do you expect me to pay for this gimcrack excursion of yours?
Extract from : « The Garden Party » by Katherine Mansfield

When gazing at it one gazed at the ruin, not of a cottage or of a gimcrack villa, but at the ruins of a palace.
Extract from : « December Love » by Robert Hichens

I was never one to jump to gimcrack conclusions, and I said as much with perhaps more candour than the occasion required.
Extract from : « Witching Hill » by E. W. Hornung

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