Words Seldom Seen: Gewgaw

GewGaw

Noun: A Bauble or Trinket. Often showy but useless. In Yiddish a Gewgaw is a Tschotske. Variant spelling is Geegaw.

Example: Grandma’s house was full of treasured but worthless gewgaws.

The photo is of a gewgaw owned by Eva Gold, of blessed memory, and is available for adoption.


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