gimcrackery

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gim·crack (j

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A cheap and showy object of little or no use; a gewgaw.

adj.

Cheap and tasteless; gaudy: "The shelves groan with an array of gimcrack gifts from fans: a stuffed piranha fish ... a ceramic ... bull, a papier-mâché replica of an Apollo moonwalker" (Harry F. Waters).

[Possibly alteration of Middle English gibecrake, small ornament.]

gimcracker·y n.

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Noun

gimcrackery - ornamental objects of no great value

falderol, folderal, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery, frill

decoration, ornament, ornamentation - something used to beautify

Translations

gimcrackery

n → Plunder m, → Firlefanz m (both pej inf)

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