Something showy but worthless; a bauble or gimmick.
verb
(transitive) To embellish with gimcracks.
(transitive) To put together quickly and without much care; to bodge.
gimmicks
gimmicks
noun
plural of gimmick
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gimmick
gimmicky
gimmicky
adj
Containing gimmicks.
Resembling, or characteristic of a gimmick.
greekism
gurmukhi
gurmukhi
Proper noun
An abugida script, or writing system, designed for writing the Punjabi language, and subsequently also adapted to write other lects, such as Braj Bhasha, Hindi, Sanskrit and Sindhi.
jimigaki
kilogram
kilogram
noun
(proscribed) The unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.
In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10⁻³⁴ when expressed in units of kg⋅m²⋅s⁻¹. Symbol: kg
kimigayo
kingdoms
kingdoms
noun
plural of kingdom
kingmont
kingsman
kingsman
noun
(military) The lowest enlisted rank in the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment of the British Army, equivalent to private in the rest of the British Army.
Alternative form of king's man.
kirigami
kirigami
noun
An art similar to origami, with cutting permitted.
korrigum
korrigum
noun
Damaliscus korrigum korrigum, an antelope of a subspecies of the topi.
krigsman
mackling
mackling
verb
present participle of mackle
mafeking
magicked
magicked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of magic
markings
markings
noun
plural of marking
the pattern of colouration on a particular animal
maskings
maskings
noun
plural of masking
mcknight
meckling
meekling
pigmaker
remaking
remaking
noun
recreation; reconstruction
verb
present participle of remake
skiagram
skiagram
noun
A picture or image created from shadows, especially with X-rays.
skimming
skimming
noun
(crime) The act of fraudulently copying a magnetic stripe from a magnetic stripe card, such as found on credit cards and bank cards, through the use of a skimmer
(uncountable) The sport of skimboarding.
(uncountable, economics) Short for cream skimming.
(uncountable, finance) Short for price skimming.
A motion or action that skims.
Something skimmed from a surface etc.
verb
present participle of skim
skimping
skimping
adj
scanty; meagre; done inefficiently.
verb
present participle of skimp
skiogram
smacking
smacking
adj
That resounds with a loud smack or series of smacks.
noun
A series of smacks; the act by which somebody is smacked.
verb
present participle of smack
smeeking
smerking
smerking
verb
present participle of smerk
smirking
smirking
noun
The act of one who smirks.
verb
present participle of smirk
smocking
smocking
noun
(sewing) An embroidery technique in which the fabric is gathered and then embroidered with decorative stitches to hold the gathers in place; the product of the use of this embroidery technique.
verb
present participle of smock
smokings
smokings
noun
plural of smoking
unmaking
unmaking
noun
The act by which something is unmade.
verb
present participle of unmake
upmaking
upmaking
noun
(nautical, historical) Pieces of plank or timber piled on each other as filling up in building, especially between the bilgeways and ship's bottom, preparatory to launching.
(printing, historical) The arrangement of lines into columns or pages.