gewgaw
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gewgaw \Gew"gaw\, n. [OE. gigawe, gugawe, gewgaude, prob. the
same word as OE. givegove gewgaw, apparently a reduplicated
form fr. AS. gifan to give; cf. also F. joujou plaything, and
E. gaud, n. See {Give}, and cf. {Giffgaff}.]
A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but
worthless bauble.
Syn: knicknack; bauble; tschotschke.
[1913 Webster]
A heavy gewgaw called a crown. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "gewgaw":
a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, agate, bagatelle,
ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, bean, bibelot, bijou,
bit, blocks, brass farthing, bric-a-brac, button, cent,
checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, cricket bat, cue, curio,
doll, doll carriage, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite,
folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gimcrack, golf club, hair,
halfpenny, hill of beans, hobbyhorse, jack-in-the-box, jacks,
jackstones, jackstraws, jest, joke, kickshaw, knack, knickknack,
knickknackery, marble, marionette, mig, minikin, mockery, molehill,
novelty, paper doll, peppercorn, picayune, pick-up sticks, pin,
pinch of snuff, pinprick, pinwheel, plaything, puppet, racket,
rag doll, rap, red cent, rocking horse, row of pins, rush, shit,
snap, sneeshing, sou, sport, steelie, straw, taw, teetotum, top,
toy, toy soldier, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents,
twopence, vanity, whatnot, whim-wham
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