gimcrack
/ˈdʒɪmkrak
/adjective
Showy but cheap or badly made.And both, more sadly, suffered from slightly gimcrack build quality....
- Most traditional buildings have vanished, to be replaced by gimcrack shoddiness in white tile and blue glass.
Synonyms
shoddy, jerry-built, badly built, flimsy, insubstantial, rickety, ramshackle, thrown together, makeshift, inferior, poor-quality, second-rate, third-rate, low-grade, cheap, cheapjack, tawdry, rubbishy, kitschy, trashy, crude, tinny
informal tacky, tatty, junky
British informal ropy, duff, rubbish, grotty
noun
A cheap and showy ornament; a knick-knack.There's nothing you can do to change the little ones' minds about the gewgaws and gimcracks they expect to find beneath the tree - or to stop your in-laws' annual onslaught, for that matter....
- He was driving some sissy little Japanese car with odd little tires and wheels and a bunch of ugly gewgaws and gimcracks bolted on.
- As soon as they arrive, Amelia excitedly shows Rebecca ‘over every room of the house, and everything in every one of her drawers; and her books, and her piano, and her dresses, and all her necklaces, brooches, laces, and gimcracks '.
Derivatives
gimcrackery
/ nounOrigin
Middle English gibecrake, of unknown origin. Originally a noun, the term denoted some kind of inlaid work in wood, later a fanciful notion or mechanical contrivance, hence a knick-knack.
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