Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, showy ornament of little value; a trinket.
- noun A mock scepter carried by a court jester.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To trifle.
- noun A child's plaything or toy.
- noun A trifling piece of finery; that which is gay or showy without real value; a gewgaw.
- noun A trifle; a thing of little or no value; a childish or foolish matter or affair.
- Trifling; insignificant; contemptible.
- Also spelled
bawble . - noun Primarily, a sort of scepter or staff of office, the attribute of Folly personified, carried by the jesters of kings and great lords in the middle ages, and down to the seventeenth century.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
- noun obsolete The fool's club.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A cheap
showy ornament piece ofjewellery ; agewgaw . - noun A
club orsceptre carried by ajester . - noun A small
shiny spherical decoration, commonly put onChristmas trees .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mock scepter carried by a court jester
- noun cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The former was dressed in "a parti-colored dress, including a cowl, which ended in a cock's-head, and was winged with a couple of long ears; he, moreover, carried in his hand a stick called his bauble, terminating either in an inflated bladder or some other ludicrous object, to be employed in slapping inadvertent neighbors."
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To Paul the bauble was a bit of the warm wonder that was she.
The Fortunate Youth 1914
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For the great tassels still hung at the sides and – Well! you may call it an impossible find or say that if the bauble was there it should have been discovered in the first search for it!
The Filigree Ball 1903
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To Paul the bauble was a bit of the warm wonder that was she.
The Fortunate Youth William John Locke 1896
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Logically, to refuse the bauble is the correct action.
CommanderBond.net 2009
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Logically, to refuse the bauble is the correct action.
CommanderBond.net 2009
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she said, noting that the bauble is a happy reminder of her thirteen-year marriage.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Sergeant-at-Arms elevated his mace -- that "bauble" of authority so distasteful to the Puritans -- and the Speaker began to swear in the members State by State.
Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853
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Cromwell at Marston Moor, and, resisting the Protector when he removed the "bauble," was one of the patriots incarcerated in "Hell hole."
Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Moor, and, resisting the Protector when he removed the "bauble," was one of the patriots incarcerated in "Hell hole."
Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
brtom commented on the word bauble
Perish the baubles! Your person is all I desire.
Goldsmith, She Stoops, II
January 10, 2007
alguien commented on the word bauble
This word brings to mind those blown-glass sphere-things that float. I don't know what those sphere-things are actually called, but they should be called baubles.
March 28, 2007