Gimcrack

Quick meaning: Gimcrack is an adjective meaning Showy but of poor quality; worthless.

Meaning

Showy but of poor quality; worthless.

More Meanings

1. Something showy but worthless; a bauble or gimmick.
2. (transitive) To put together quickly and without much care; to bodge.
3. (transitive) To embellish with gimcracks.

Example Sentences

[H]er miſlike of my Dreſs confirms me, this muſt be ſome levvd London Gimcrack, ſome Play-houſe haunting Couſin; […]

'The Rape of the Lock' was 'gimcrack,' if you care to call it so; but it was a delicate brilliant work; and so, I repeat, was Maltby's 'Ariel'.

It was cocking her up with gimcrack notions about ladies till she'd be ashamed to look at her own hands after she had done a day's work with them.

“He scribbled something on a message pad, tore, folded, gave” and “ ‘G-Gay?’ puzzled Bev” are fair examples of Mr. Burgess’s gimcrack contortions.

Word Forms

• gimcracks
• gimcracking
• gimcracked

Synonyms for gimcrack

Depending on context, synonyms include garish, tawdry, brassy, meretricious, gaudy, flashy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include meretricious, tawdry, garish, tacky, gaudy, trashy.

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