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gimcracks

gimcracks is the plural of gimcrack.

gimcracks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gimcrack.

Meaning of gimcrack

Noun

gimcrack (plural gimcracks)

  1. Something showy but worthless; a bauble or gimmick.
    • [H]er miſlike of my Dreſs confirms me, this muſt be ſome levvd London Gimcrack, ſome Play-houſe haunting Couſin; […][1703], Tho[mas] d’Urfey, The Old Mode & the New, or, Country Miss with Her Furbeloe. A Comedy. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott, and sold by Samuel Clark, […], Francis Faucet […], and Lucas Stowkey...

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Questions about gimcracks

What is gimcracks the plural of?
Gimcracks is the plural of gimcrack.

Words near gimcracks in the dictionary

  1. gimcracked
  2. gimcrackeries
  3. gimcrackery
  4. gimcrackiness
  5. gimcracking
  6. gimcracks
  7. gimcracky
  8. gimel
  9. gimels
  10. Gimenez
  11. Gimenezes

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