Usually means: Decorative trinket with little value.
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  1. gewgaw: Merriam-Webster
  2. gewgaw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gewgaw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gewgaw: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gewgaw: Vocabulary.com
  6. gewgaw: Wordnik
  7. gewgaw: Wiktionary
  8. gewgaw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gewgaw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Gewgaw, gewgaw: Dictionary.com
  11. gewgaw: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Gewgaw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. gewgaw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. gewgaw: Rhymezone
  15. Gewgaw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. gewgaw: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. gewgaw: FreeDictionary.org
  18. gewgaw: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. gewgaw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. gewgaw: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. gewgaw: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. gewgaw: Infoplease Dictionary
  23. Gewgaw: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gewgaw: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gewgaw: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gewgaw: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gewgaw)

noun:  A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration.
adjective:  Showy; unreal; pretentious.

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