G is for GEWGAWS
Greetings! Gadzooks! It's G-Day! Did I hear gasping, gulping and gnashing of teeth? Get a grip, get a grip! Good grief got a gazillion blogs to get to! Grab some grub. Got to gobble and go! Goodbye!
Yóu xì bî mò fãn yì fei huà……..
— is an old Chinese philosophy which refers to somebody who has the innate ability to decipher unusual words.
JUST JOKING.
(you can read the details about this challenge and the competition running throughout the month of April)
The word for Day 7 is—-
GEWGAWS
This is that special baby language – the goo-goo-goo gaa-gaa-gaa da-da-da ta-ta-ta language… those first sounds produced by babies who are learning to speak.
So that's my definition. What's yours? Post it in the comment box below. Remember you stand to win a prize.
It's like a guffaw but without the humor?
Heather
I'm imagining a dry, expressionless attempt at laughter…? As in "dead pan" face but heaving body…
Gewgaws – extra stuff that we don't know what to do with.
Yeah I think this one is actually right. 😛
I'm inclined to agree with you ladies… 🙂
You know when candy sits around for awhile and gets kind of stale, bland, and overly chewy? Gee gaws. They especially pile up after Halloween and Easter.
Aha! So that's the cause of an increase in TMJ disorder after the Halloween and Easter festivities… those inedible gewgaws…!
When a student is playing a song on the piano, that they didn't practice all that much, and they keep backtracking to hit the correct notes. plink, plink, gewgaw, plink, plooonk (that was a whole note).
Cheers!
Lots of my beginners suffer with the piano-gewgaw-syndrome… they're always plinking and plonking along! I love your whole note sound! *chuckles*
When a cat's dew claw gets all gummy, it has gewgaws.
Kitty-clammy-claws = gewgaws? Makes sense?
Actually, this is the sound a rare and almost extinct subterranean moth (cave dweller and distant relation to the common fruit bat) makes when under sever stress. Writers recognize this sound because it's quite similar to the ones they make when they receive a rejection or a bad review. I'm shocked others haven't defined gewgaws accurately.
You've nailed it! It's the inarticulate sounds the rejectee makes when in shock, after the negative feedback! Some are still in shock… delayed shock… hence the failure to define the word accurately! 🙂
Gewgaws are malleable beads used by jewelry makers. They heat them and then mold them into different shapes to suit the design.
Mmm… is this true…? And you're sticking to your answer…?
Gewgaws means bring the Angry Birds and lets throw them at anyone who enters the room. The guffaw is certain.
I'd like to throw some Angry Birds at the spammers….
A really bad name for a line of clothing.
It sounds kinda catchy… and cute… so maybe it could work as a baby brand of clothes… gew gew gew, gaw gaw gaw…
GEWGAWS – WRAP YOUR BABY IN GEWGAW GOODNESS! GARB FOR GROWING KIDS.
This reminds me of the old Police song Doo Doo Doo De Da Da Da – I'm singing it in my head with this crazy G word now.
I love that song! Sting is a GENIUS!
Actualy… pet names for my grandparents. 🙂 All four of them.
It has a "grandparently appeal"… like a term of endearment! 🙂 Gewgaw 1,2,3,& 4…aaaah, so cute…!!
Golly gee. You outdid me! I'm going to have rethink further posts.
Gobbledygook! You probably doing okay… 🙂
Here's mine:
GewGaw: A term used for a really hot guy.
In a sentence: "GewGaw! Did you see him?"
Like when you are speechless cos he takes your breathe away…? I love your logic!
I love this word–it means trinkets right? Baubles and such? But I like your definition better. 🙂
It's a great word! 🙂
Sounds like a type of chewing gum. (:
Watch out, it's probably the kind that's responsible for TMJ disorder!
A specially designed seesaw that hangs from gutters.
Ah! The makeshift kind that you build as kids, when you cannot afford the real thing…
It is a synonym for a gentleman's "family jewels" used in certain quarters of East London.
I love this one! Are we talking the socio-economically disadvantaged or the affluent? I'm trying to pinpoint the correct accent/body language/mannerisms that would be used. LOL
Your definiton is so much cuter than the official one.
Anything linked to babies is a winner! Thanks Medeia!
Cajun french fries! 🙂
Oooh… sounds yummy! Now I'm wishing… 🙂
Gewgaw collects around your shower drain.
The gooey, gummy, mouldy, yucky, smelly residue = gewgaws. Perfect definition.
Gew gaws! Have no idea what it means but it's going to be my new expression.
I'm also gonna use it at some stage….
Sounds like a bunch of shiny Star Trek paraphernalia that collects dust in my Dad's office:) No offense to trekkies, of course *crosses self with Spock's peace sign*
Cheers!
Sam
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Mmm… no offence taken (I'm not a true trekkie…)
Gewgaws is that state you get into after having stuffed yourself so much, you sit back in a chair, stare off into space and an unintelligible sound escapes from your throught, gooogooo or gaaagaaa, before you excuse yourself to lie stomach down on the softest, most malleable sofa you've got.
There is a correlation with my definition… you become inarticulate… just babble on… like gibberish… 🙂
Great sentences today. You really captured the Monday vibe! Gewgaws are all those gadgets on the toolbelts of steampunk ladies of the evening.
GEWGAW GADGETRY – FOR GLAMOROUS GIRLS ON THE GO! 🙂