gewgaw

Other forms of gewgaw

plural

gewgaws·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gewgaw

What does gewgaw mean?

gewgaw means "cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing".

How many syllables are in gewgaw?

gewgaw has 2 syllables: gew-gaw. The stress falls on "gew". In IPA it is /ˈɡjuɡɑ/.

What is another word for gewgaw?

Close synonyms include bangle, bauble, gaud, novelty, fallal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gewgaw a common word?

gewgaw is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.