Synonyms of the word bauble


BAUBLEADORNMENT - BANGLE - GAUD - GEWGAW - NOVELTY - SCEPTER - SCEPTRE - TRINKET - VERGE - WAND

bauble

  • n. A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
  • n. A club or sceptre carried by a jester.
  • n. A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.

adornment

  • n. A decoration; that which adorns.
  • n. The act of decorating.

bangle

  • n. A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) to beat about or beat down, as corn by the wind.
  • v. (obsolete or dialectal) to waste away little by little; squander carelessly; fritter (away).
  • v. (intransitive) (falconry) to beat about in the air; flutter: said of a hawk which does not rise steadily…
  • v. (intransitive) to flap or hang down loosely, as a hat brim or an animal's ear.
  • n. (dialectal) The cut branch of a tree; a large, rough stick; the largest piece of wood in a bundle of twigs.

gaud

  • n. a cheap showy trinket.
  • n. (obsolete) trick; jest; sport.
  • n. (obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice.
  • v. (obsolete) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.
  • v. To sport or keep festival.

gewgaw

  • n. A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration.
  • adj. Showy; unreal; pretentious.

novelty

  • n. The state of being new or novel; newness.
  • n. A new product; an innovation.
  • n. A small mass-produced trinket.
  • n. In novelty theory, newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation.

scepter

  • n. US spelling of sceptre.
  • v. US spelling of sceptre.

sceptre

  • n. (Britain) An ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch as a symbol of power.
  • v. To give a sceptre to.

trinket

  • n. A small showy ornament or piece of jewelry.
  • n. A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.
  • n. (nautical) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.
  • n. (obsolete) A knife; a cutting tool.
  • v. (obsolete) To give trinkets; to court favour.

verge

  • n. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
  • n. An edge or border.
  • n. (obsolete) The phallus.
  • n. An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
  • n. A circumference; a circle; a ring.
  • n. (architecture) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
  • n. (architecture) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
  • n. (horology) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or come very close; to border; to approach.

wand

  • n. A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing.
  • n. (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand.
  • n. a magic wand.
  • n. A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
  • n. plural: A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
  • v. (transitive) To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a metal detector.

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