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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
gimcrack
    adj 1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring";
           "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts";
           "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
           [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish,
           gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky,
           tatty, tawdry, trashy]
    n 1: ornamental objects of no great value [syn: folderal,
         falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense,
         trumpery]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gimcrack \gim"crack`\, n. [OE., a spruce and pert pretender,
   also, a spruce girl, prob. fr. gim + crack lad, boaster.]
   A trivial mechanism; a device. --Arbuthnot.
   [1913 Webster]

   2. A toy; a pretty thing; an ornamental object of no great
      value.

   Syn: trinket, gewgaw, knickknack, tchotchke.
        [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] gimcrackery

Thesaurus Results for gimcrack:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, agate, apparatus, bagatelle, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, blocks, brass farthing, bric-a-brac, button, cent, checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, contraption, contrivance, cricket bat, cue, curio, device, doll, doll carriage, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gadget, gaud, gewgaw, gimmick, gizmo, golf club, hair, halfpenny, hand tool, hill of beans, hobbyhorse, implement, instrument, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, jest, joke, kickshaw, knack, knickknack, knickknackery, marble, marionette, means, mechanical device, mig, minikin, mockery, molehill, novelty, paper doll, peppercorn, picayune, pick-up sticks, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pinwheel, plaything, power tool, precision tool, puppet, racket, rag doll, rap, red cent, rocking horse, row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, speed tool, sport, steelie, straw, taw, teetotum, tool, top, toy, toy soldier, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, utensil, whatnot, whim-wham
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