Meaning & use
Geegaw
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A showy but essentially useless or trivial trinket.
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The souvenir shop was crammed with geegaws and cheap keychains.
She cleared the shelf of dusty geegaws collected over decades.
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A variant spelling of 'gewgaw,' a word of uncertain origin dating back to Middle English.
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