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bauble.

A cheap showy ornament or piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈbɔːbəɫ]Received-Pronunciation[ˈbɒbəɫ]/ˈbɔbəl/General-American/ˈbɑbəl/cot-caught-merger
  1. A cheap showy ornament or piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.

  2. Anything trivial and worthless.

    broadly · figuratively
  3. A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.

  4. A club or sceptre carried by a jester.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English bable, babel, babull, babulle, from Old French babel, baubel (“trinket, child's toy”), most likely a reduplication of bel, ultimately from Latin bellus (“pretty”).

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