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Gilthead
Giltif
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Gilttail
Gim
Gimbal
Gimbal joint
gimbal ring
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gimbals
Gimcrack definitions
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
GIM'CRACK, n. A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
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]
Merriam Webster's
I. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1676 a showy object of little use or value; gewgaw • gimcrackery nounII. adjective Date: 1715 cheap, shoddy
Oxford Reference Dictionary
adj. & n. --adj. showy but flimsy and worthless. --n. a cheap showy ornament; a knick-knack. Derivatives: gimcrackery n. gimcracky adj. Etymology: ME gibecrake a kind of ornament, of unkn. orig.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
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; a toy; a pretty thing. --Arbuthnot.
Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
n. Trifle, toy, knicknack, knack, jiggumbob.
Moby Thesaurus
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
