Definitions for gimcracks

gimcracks gim·crack

Spelling: [jim-krak]
IPA: /ˈdʒɪmˌkræk/

Gimcracks is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 336 anagrams from letters in gimcracks (accgikmrs).

Definitions for gimcracks

noun

  1. a showy, useless trifle; gewgaw.

adjective

  1. showy but useless.

Origin of gimcracks

1325-75 for earlier sense; Middle English gib(e)crake; compare Middle English gibben to waver (Old French giber to shake)

Examples for gimcracks

When gazing at it one gazed at the ruin, not of a cottage or of a gimcrack villa, but at the ruins of a palace.

As a rule, they are of a flimsy and gimcrack order of architecture.

Not mastery of oneself—just gimcrack, made-in-Birmingham mastery.

The work-bag, I'll bet you all I am worth, has not a gimcrack in it that is not her own.'

I was never one to jump to gimcrack conclusions, and I said as much with perhaps more candour than the occasion required.

A nice set you must be to give your gimcrack craft such a name as that!

And do you expect me to pay for this gimcrack excursion of yours?

The Gothic souls find fault with it, and say it is gimcrack and tawdry and cheap.

I will buy her the necklace she scolded me about at Lacy and gimcrack's; it's just the sum.

He then thought of what a fool he had been to give her back that gimcrack pistol.

Word Value for gimcracks
Scrable

19

Words with friends

23

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