Covered with or characterized by gewgaws; full of showy, cheap, or useless ornaments and trinkets.
From 'gewgaw,' a word of unknown but possibly onomatopoetic origin meaning a cheap trinket. The -y suffix converts the noun to an adjective. The term emerged in English around the 16th century, possibly influenced by reduplication.
Language is full of words born from silly sounds—'gewgaw' is probably onomatopoetic, mimicking the sound cheap trinkets make when they jingle together, which is why it perfectly captures that chaotic, junky feeling!
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