Definitions for gewgaw
ˈgyu gɔ, ˈgu-gew·gaw

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal, trinketnoun

   cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. gewgawnoun

   A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration.

2. gewgawadjective

   Showy; unreal; pretentious.

3. Etymology: From earlier gugaw, gygaw, from givegove, a reduplication of give, geove, from giefu, geofu, geafu, from gebō. Compare gyligjöf. More at give.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gewgawadjective

   Splendidly trifling; showy without value.

   Let him that would learn the happiness of religion, see the poor gewgaw happiness of Feliciano. William Law, Serious Call.

2. Gewgawnoun

   A showy trifle; a toy; a bauble; a splendid plaything.

   Etymology: gegaf, Saxon; joyau, French.

   That metal they exchanged for the meanest trifles and gewgaws which the others could bring. George Abbot, Descr. of the World.

   Prefer that which providence has pronounced to be the staff of life, before a glittering gewgaw that has no other value than what vanity has set upon it. Roger L'Estrange, Fable 1.

   As children, when they throw one toy away,
   Straight a more foolish gewgaw comes in play. Dryden.

   A heavy gewgaw, call’d a crown, that spread
   About his temples, drown’d his narrow head,
   And would have crush’d it. John Dryden, Juvenal, Sat. 10.

   Some loose the bands
   Of ancient friendship, cancel nature’s laws
   For pageantry and tawdry gewgaws. Phillips.

   The first images were fans, silks, ribbands, laces, and many other gewgaws, which lay so thick that the whole heart was nothing else but a toyshop. Joseph Addison, Guard.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gewgaw

   Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable and/or unpredictable given the context of their discussion; to de-emphasize in which event the precise specification thereof is otherwise impossible, or to deliberately expunge.Placeholder names for people are often terms referring to an average person or a predicted persona of a typical user.

ChatGPTRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. gewgaw

   A gewgaw is a showy but worthless or useless object, often a small trinket or ornament. It is typically used in a pejorative or dismissive sense to refer to something that is all style and no substance.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gewgawnoun

   a showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble

2. Gewgawadjective

   showy; unreal; pretentious

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gewgaw

   gū′gaw, n. a toy: a bauble.—adj. showy without value. [Acc. to Skeat, a reduplicated form of A.S. gifan, to give; preserved also in Northern Eng., as giff-gaff, interchange of intercourse.]

Matched Categories

1. • Adornment

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How to pronounce gewgaw?

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   British

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   Australian

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   Indian

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How to say gewgaw in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gewgaw in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gewgaw in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=gewgaw
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gewgaw
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=gewgaw
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewgaw
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gewgaw
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=gewgaw
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gewgaw