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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a mock scepter carried by a court jester
2: cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal, trinket]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English babel, from Middle French Date: 14th century 1. trinket 1 2. a fool's scepter 3. something of trifling appeal

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a showy trinket or toy of little value. 2 a baton formerly used as an emblem by jesters. Etymology: ME f. OF ba(u)bel child's toy, of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bauble Bau"ble, n. [Cf. OF. baubel a child's plaything, F. babiole, It. babbola, LL. baubellum gem, jewel, L. babulus, a baburrus, foolish.] 1. A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything. The ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod. --Sheridan. 2. The fool's club. [Obs.] ``A fool's bauble was a short stick with a head ornamented with an ass's ears fantastically carved upon it.'' --Nares.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(baubles) A bauble is a small, cheap ornament or piece of jewellery. ...Christmas trees decorated with coloured baubles. = trinket N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n.; (also bawble) Trinket, gewgaw, toy, trifle, plaything, gimcrack, knack, knick-knack.

Moby Thesaurus

a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, agate, bagatelle, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bean, bibelot, bit, blocks, brass farthing, bric-a-brac, button, cent, checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, cricket bat, cue, curio, dido, doll, doll carriage, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, 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, ornament, 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, whatnot, whim-wham