Gimcrack
English Meaning
A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.
- A cheap and showy object of little or no use; a gewgaw.
- Cheap and tasteless; gaudy: "The shelves groan with an array of gimcrack gifts from fans: a stuffed piranha fish ... a ceramic ... bull, a papier-mâché replica of an Apollo moonwalker” ( Harry F. Waters).