gewgaw
geegaw AmE

You'll give the girl back her gewgaw, I suppose?

"Why on earth would your father have had such a preposterous gewgaw?

"I've always wanted to know what a gewgaw was.

Frustration welled up, changes in the systems, every time they looked, some new gewgaw in the works.

Not a single gewgaw hangs off it.

Quite out of the gewgaw stage."

"To the Jew with the gewgaw, then!"

He fitted the squash-like gewgaw in place and mopped his drenched, steaming forehead.

"Every picture frame, every gewgaw must be dusted.

(But nobody says "gewgaw" anymore - it's one of those words you see in dictionaries.)

An interesting gewgaw.

Tunk began howling in outrage that one of his bodyguards had broken some priceless gewgaw.

All the Klossowski-designed gewgaw accessories of the past were replaced by one dark orchid at the throat - or was it a black dahlia?

His main complaint is that "it was rather annoying to have yet another evil sorcerer and yet another magical gewgaw."

Tremendous numbers of trees, and stone teeth to guard them, and vines fruited with flowers in gewgaw colours.

Izzy stuck a briefcase in my paw and hoped that the headdress would pass for a touristy gewgaw.

The Kingdom of Gewgaw (1976) (2000)

When we were slipping into bed, I noted the absence of a gewgaw worn by every woman who doesn't want to hear little voices piping, "Mommy!"

Mrs. Buchan's shop is banked floor to ceiling with every imaginable gewgaw selling for under $3, which is her limit.

No one cared about profits, and deals were made willy-nilly to build the hypothetical value of the company, including adding a search engine, the gewgaw of the moment.

The current Oxford English Dictionary gives the origin as the Russian tsatska, and defines it as "a trinket or gewgaw."

If a gewgaw ordinarily goes for $2, you needn't pay $200 to be virtuous, but you ought not try to beat the merchant down to 20 cents, either.

As the smallish rooms of the house were converted into dining spaces, every gewgaw and tchotchke in Hudson County seems to have come along and joined the party.

It was a mean attempt, inspired by the absurd and vulgar spirit of Imperialism, to subsidize the Crown with a parvenu title, and a tawdry gewgaw reputation".

The thinking was logical: few people willingly wander through electronic circuitry for four days at a place like the Moscone Center without at least some intention of buying a gewgaw or two.

Posted by Geegaw on September 4th, 2002.

Unless it's £60,000,000 for a new geegaw for Brenda.

In a nation that transforms almost every holiday into a multibillion-dollar geegaw industry, sharing as yet outweighs buying.

Everybody's entitled toone geegaw."

Such a tiny, inconsequential geegaw, but made by beings I still had trouble believing in, even though I'd seen--and heard--them myself.

The daughter of deceased inventor and aviator Geegaw Hackwrench, who was a good friend of Monterey Jack.

If you just loaded the latest geegaw from Geegaws Inc., head on over to the Geegaws site and look for a customer service link or a frequently asked questions (FAQ) list.

Do the Wassail: A Short Guide to Wassail, Songs, Customs, Recipes and Traditions: How to Have a Fine Geegaw of a Wassail!

You can't help but feel a sorry for some chump who would buy a geegaw in the hopes of losing twenty pounds in two weeks, when you yourself have lost half that amount by using the stationary bike every day for six months.

There was also some strange geegaw lying on the sand at the bottom, one of the things people put into their aquar-iums to decorate them, he assumed, except this one wasn't a sunken ship or a pirate chest or King Neptune's castle.

Those people love features like a geegaw that lets you put a graphical smiley in your posting, and the ability to upload snapshots of their ugly mugs to appear next to their postings, and the ability to click a button and never see postings by the blithering idiot who wrote this one again.

No doubt your paymasters will have insisted you bring a handycam with which to trip over some interviews with the upcoming geegaw pedlars to justify your surrepticiously bringing a column on CES down to no more than an expanded Tweet tee-heeing the fact your bosses let you go.