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Brummagem

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Cheap and showy; meretricious.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Cheap and showy; meretricious.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Showy but worthless; fictitious; sham. [Slang or colloq.]

n. A piece of brummagem ware; hence, an imitation; sham.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. cheap and showy

n. a city in central England; 2nd largest English city and an important industrial and transportation center

Word Usage

"These picturesque rooms often contained "good finds" of the old Spanish furniture, and brass; but as a rule the dealers had long since bought up all the old things, replacing them by "brummagem," -- modern articles shining with cheap varnish."

Equivalent

tasteless

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

metropolis urban center city

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

counterfeit sham gaud

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

byronism cities' well-delivered criminological antiquarianism