{
  "gewgaw":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a showy trifle : bauble , trinket":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "had a shelf devoted just to gewgaws featuring his favorite team's mascot",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Words that foiled spellers included chrysal, athanor, cloxacillin, heliconius, torticollis, platylepadid and gewgaw , and at one point judges had to review a video replay to determine whether a speller said the letter I or Y. \u2014 New York Times , 9 July 2021",
      "And how nice to see Cynthia Erivo \u2014 to really see the woman and not have her overwhelmed by an elaborate mishmash of ruffles and gewgaws . \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Jan. 2020",
      "Loaded to the gills with all-wheel drive, digital gewgaws and two-tone leather interior, my racy coupe stickered for $62,000 \u2014 a healthy $20,000 cheaper than a comparable BMW M4 coupe. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 28 Dec. 2019",
      "Giveaways are a universal phenomenon, but Silicon Valley has made free gewgaws and gadgets an integral part of its culture. \u2014 Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com , 24 July 2019",
      "The nihilistic gewgaw , vacuous and vulgar, instead embodies the mythos that can be manufactured in a crude market-culture that primarily values art as a luxury asset. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 July 2019",
      "Graphics: Your choice of desktop-class RTX 2060, 2070, or 2080 Display: Your choice of four 17.3-inch FHD (1920x1080) displays, with or without touch, with or without gewgaws like Tobii eye-tracking. \u2014 Melissa Riofrio, PCWorld , 8 Jan. 2019",
      "Bookstores should be designed to bring us closer together, not modeled after an open prairie dotted with books and assorted gewgaws \u2014 puzzles, Lego kits, Polaroid cameras. \u2014 John Warner, chicagotribune.com , 6 June 2018",
      "Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney have all won Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards and countless other prizes and gewgaws in the weeks leading up to the Oscars. \u2014 Glenn Whipp, latimes.com , 20 Feb. 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1529, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8g(y)\u00fc-(\u02cc)g\u022f"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bauble",
      "bibelot",
      "curio",
      "curiosity",
      "doodad",
      "gaud",
      "gimcrack",
      "kickshaw",
      "knickknack",
      "nicknack",
      "novelty",
      "ornamental",
      "tchotchke",
      "trinket"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092048",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}