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gimcracky

gimcracky adjective: gimcrack.

Adjective

gimcracky (comparative more gimcracky, superlative most gimcracky)

  1. Gimcrack.
    • He seems spooney on Queenie's grown-up daughter, who is as pretty as any china of Dresden or Sevres, but too delicate and gimcracky for my taste.1882, Maria Wilkin, The Shackles of an Old Love, page 261
    • If the houses look a little gimcracky, I'm sure it's a reaction after having to be so very solid, and now they delight in stucco and plaster and anything that looks gay and pretty after the grim dark buildings of the past.1914, Constance Smedley, Una and the Lions: A Novel, page 232

Forms of gimcracky

comparativemore gimcracky
superlativemost gimcracky

Words formed from gimcracky

Questions about gimcracky

What does gimcracky mean?
Gimcracky means gimcrack.
What part of speech is gimcracky?
Gimcracky is an adjective.

Words near gimcracky in the dictionary

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

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