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Webster 1913 Edition

gimcrack

gim′crackˊ

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Noun.

[OE., a spruce and pert pretender, also, a spruce girl, prob. fr.

gim

+

crack

lad, boaster.]

A trivial mechanism; a device.

Arbuthnot.

Webster 1828 Edition

Gimcrack

GIM'CRACK

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Noun.

A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.