Bauble
['bɔːb(ə)l] or ['bɔbl]
Definition
(n.) A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
(n.) The fool's club.
Editor: Peter
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Toy, trifle, plaything, knicknack, gewgaw, gimcrack, kickshaw
ANT:Valuable, possession, acquisition, gera, ornament, decoration, jewel
Editor: William
Definition
n. a trifling piece of finery: a child's plaything: a stick surmounted by a head with ass's ears and forming the mock emblem of the court-jester: a piece of childish foolery: (Shak.) a foolish person.—adj. Bau′bling (obs.) trifling.
Checker: Wade
Examples
- A dainty song, said Wamba, when they had finished their carol, and I swear by my bauble, a pretty moral! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- My fool's cap was a casque, and my bauble a truncheon. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- On a table near her is a rich bauble of a casket, barred and clasped like an old strong-chest. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She pointed to it now, and Tarzan removed it and handed the pretty bauble to her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Perish a thousand such frail baubles as this Jewess, before thy manly step pause in the brilliant career that lies stretched before thee! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Found in their natural state in utmost perfection, needing no cutting nor polishing, these glowing beads of the sea were the first baubles of savages, tribes and nations. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She clung hold of his coat, of his hands; her own were all covered with serpents, and rings, and baubles. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Inputed by Diego