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gimcrack
Definitions
(Noun) A showy but useless or worthless object; a gewgaw.Adjective; tasteless, gaudy.
Usage: As i peered through the open window i saw her gimcrack, and howled in delight.
Or: gim crack / jimcrack :
1. Jocular euphemism for the vagina, based on the standard meaning of the term, a cheap and showy object of little or no use. See vagina for synonyms.
2. Defined by Captain Francis Grose in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811): ' A spruce wench '.
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