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Word of the Day for Thursday, March 3, 2011gimcrack \JIM-krak\, noun: 1. A showy but useless or worthless object; a gewgaw. adjective: Yet the set is more than a collection of pretty gimcracks. In those cities most self-conscious about their claim to be part of English history, like Oxford or Bath, the shops where you could have bought a dozen nails, home-made cakes or had a suit run up, have shut down and been replaced with places selling teddy bears, T-shirts and gimcrack souvenirs. And as for coincidences in books -- there's something cheap and sentimental about the device; it can't help always seeming aesthetically gimcrack. The origin of gimcrack is uncertain. It is perhaps an alteration of Middle English gibecrake, "a slight or flimsy ornament." | |||||||||
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  The sound of a chips bag opening? How do you describe it and what is the word for describing such sounds?A few years ago Frito-Lay introduced a bag for their snack chips that was made from plants, not plastic, and could�decompose in compost. It seemed like a good idea - a company putting their environmental foot forward through sustainable packaging - however, the "rip" heard upon opening the bag of chips registered at about eighty-five... | |||||||||
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