Word.ws English Dictionary

jimcrack

jimcrack is the alternative spelling of gimcrack.

Meaning of gimcrack

Adjective

gimcrack (not comparable)

  1. Showy but of poor quality; worthless.
    • For years past this branch of art-manufacture had been entrusted to those whose taste, if it may be called taste at all, can be no more referred to correct principles of design than the gimcrack decorations of a wedding-cake could be tested by any standard of sculpturesque beauty.1869, Charles L[ocke] Eastlake, “The Entrance Hall”, in Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and Other Details, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 48

See all 4 meanings of gimcrack

Forms of jimcrack

pluraljimcracks

Questions about jimcrack

What is jimcrack the alternative spelling of?
Jimcrack is the alternative spelling of gimcrack.

Words near jimcrack in the dictionary

  1. Jimbo
  2. jimboite
  3. Jimbolia
  4. Jimbonian
  5. jimbu
  6. jimcrack
  7. jimcrackeries
  8. jimcrackery
  9. jimcracks
  10. jimcro
  11. jimcrow

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jimcrack (page history and authors); gimcrack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “jimcrack.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/jimcrack. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.