Definitions for bauble

bauble bau·ble

Spelling: [baw-buh l]
IPA: /ˈbɔ bəl/

Bauble is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in bauble (abbelu).

Definitions for bauble

noun

  1. a showy, usually cheap, ornament; trinket; gewgaw.
  2. a jester's scepter.

Origin of bauble

1275-1325; Middle English babel, babulle Old French babel, baubel, derivatives of an expressive base with varying vocalisms; compare Old French baubelet, bibelot

Examples for bauble

The gilding all stripped from the bauble which till then had made her happy.

I keep a box in my pocket merely as a bauble—it was a present.

He let it lie on the table before him and gazed at the bauble in a strong distaste.

It was thus I now toyed there with my fate in my hands, as might a child have toyed with a bauble.

Her black eyes gleamed with triumph at the sight of the bauble.

Actually, he knew he could get an easy twenty-five balata for the bauble in Karth.

But it was only a pinchbeck thing, an imitation, a bauble, an empty show.

She threw the bauble on the floor; it lay there crushed and shapeless.

So you had better produce the other bauble you stole at the same time.

It is a bauble meant to gratify her: why make it a fetter, be it ever so light a one?

Word Value for bauble
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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