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gewgaw

[ gyoo-gaw, goo- ]

noun

  1. something gaudy and useless; trinket; bauble.


gewgaw

/ ˈɡuː-; ˈɡjuːɡɔː /

noun

  1. a showy but valueless trinket
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. showy and valueless; gaudy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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  • gewgawed adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gewgaw1

First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English giuegaue; gradational compound of uncertain origin; perhaps akin to Middle French, French gogo (see (à) gogo )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gewgaw1

C15: of unknown origin
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Example Sentences

In 2017, she arranged to have a ceremonial resin “orb,” apparently a gewgaw given to donors and other honorees that she designed, delivered to Epstein.

This apparent stance toward art is at once moronic and apt; moronic because it reduces art to a mere gewgaw, apt because other entrepreneurs have already embraced this view.

Gewgaw, a shiny trinket Bon Voyage A trinket or a knickknack, an ornament, a kickshaw, a frippery, a gimcrack, a bibelot, a gewgaw .

“Thank you so much for this opportunity. It’s been — we really needed the spelling bee this year and I’m really thankful for this opportunity,” speller Avani Joshi, a 13-year-old from Illinois, said upon elimination on the word “gewgaw.”

One can see that breezy overconfidence all the time in today’s Silicon Valley, where founders insist that their new gewgaw will “revolutionize” our lives.

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