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Bauble
A bauble may be:
Memorabilia
Christmas ornament - British English
trinket
knickknack or Bric-à-brac
frippery
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tchotchke
small jewelry
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K'ni
violin, it should more properly be called a mouth resonator fiddle not to be confused with the European Jew's harp known in north-east England as the “Gewgaw
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Orthonevra
Orthonevra flukei (Sedman, 1964)
Orthonevra frontalis (Loew, 1843)
Orthonevra gemmula (Violovitsh, 1979)
Orthonevra geniculata (Meigen, 1830)
Orthonevra gewgaw
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gewgawed
gewgawed, ppl. a. (ˈgjuːgɔːd) [f. gewgaw + -ed2.] Dressed out or adorned with gewgaws.1871 Rossetti Last Confess. 387 Before some new Madonna gaily decked, Tinselled and gewgawed. 1879 W. Jones N. Test. Illustr. 705 We shall leave our gewgawed devotees to reconcile humiliation in worship with vanity...
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gew-gaw
gewgaw, gew-gaw (ˈgjuːgɔː) Forms: 3 giuegoue, 5–8 gugaw, (5 gwgawe, 7 gugawe, guga), 6–8 guegaw, 6 gue gaw, guy-gaw, 7 guegaye, gugau, guigaw; 6–7 gew(e)gawe, 7 gewgai(e, gew-gaude, 8 geugaw, 9 dial. gewgow, geegaw, 6– gewgaw, gew-gaw. [Etymology and primary sense uncertain; a reduplicated formation...
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gugay
▪ I. guga(u, gugaw(e, gugay obs. ff. gewgaw.1659 Lady Alimony ii. ii. B 4 What may that gaudy gugay Lady be?▪ II. guga Sc. (ˈguːgə) Also goug. [Gael.] A young gannet.c 1840 N. Mackenzie in J. B. Mackenzie Episode Life Rev. N. Mackenzie at St. Kilda (1911) iii. 47 When it [sc. the young gannet] is ab...
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flamfew
flamfew (ˈflæmfjuː) Also 6 flamefew, 9 Sc. flamfoo. [Corruption of F. fanfelue:—med.L. famfalūca bubble, lie, app. ad. Gr. ποµϕόλυξ bubble. Cf. mod.F. fanfreluche.] A gewgaw, trifle, fantastic thing. Also Sc. ‘Any gaudy trapping in female dress,’ ‘a gaudily dressed female’ (Jam.).1580 Baret Alv. F 6...
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fulgurant
fulgurant, a. (ˈfʌlgjʊərənt) [ad. L. fulgurant-em, pr. pple. of fulgurāre to lighten, f. fulgur lightning: see -ant.] Flashing like lightning.1647 H. More Resolution Poems 175 [Though] Nature play her fiery games In this forc'd Night, with fulgurant flames. 1840 Browning Sordello v. 43 Careful Jove'...
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hewgag
hewgag U.S. (ˈhjuːgæg) [Of uncertain origin. It has been suggested that it is ‘prob. based on gewgaw, a jew's harp’.] A toy musical instrument for children, consisting of a wooden tube with a hole near one end, and the other closed by a piece of parchment, the vibration of which produces a wailing s...
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