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Traditional English :: gimcrack
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gimcrackery.html - adj. & n. --adj. showy but flimsy and worthless. --n. a cheap showy ornament; a knick-knack. gimcrackery n. gimcracky adj. [ME gibecrake a kind of ornament, of unkn. orig.] |
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Traditional English :: gimcrack
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gimcrackery.html - adj. & n. --adj. showy but flimsy and worthless. --n. a cheap showy ornament; a knick-knack. gimcrackery n. gimcracky adj. [ME gibecrake a kind of ornament, of unkn. orig.] |
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Traditional English :: gimcrack
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gimcrackery.html - adj. & n. --adj. showy but flimsy and worthless. --n. a cheap showy ornament; a knick-knack. gimcrackery n. gimcracky adj. [ME gibecrake a kind of ornament, of unkn. orig.] |
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Traditional English :: gimbals
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gimcrackery.html - n.pl. a contrivance, usu. of rings and pivots, for keeping instruments such as a compass and chronometer horizontal at sea, in the air, etc. [var. of earlier gimmal f. OF gemel double finger-ring f. L gemellus dimin. of geminus twin] |
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Traditional English :: gimcrack
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gimcrackery.html - adj. & n. --adj. showy but flimsy and worthless. --n. a cheap showy ornament; a knick-knack. gimcrackery n. gimcracky adj. [ME gibecrake a kind of ornament, of unkn. orig.] |
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Traditional English :: gimlet
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gimcrackery.html - n. 1 a small tool with a screw-tip for boring holes. 2 a cocktail usu. of gin and lime-juice. gimlet eye an eye with a piercing glance. [ME f. OF guimbelet, dimin. of guimble] |
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