Dictionary

trangam en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A showy or worthless article.
   • Hey day! vvhat's here? vvhat a Devil's the meaning of all theſe Trangams and Gimcracks, Gentlemen? 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “Of Some Quarrels that Happen’d after Peg was Taken into the Family”, in John Bull Still in His Senses: Being the Third Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 24:
   • And meet time it was, when yon usher, vinegar-faced rogue that he is, began to inquire what popish trangam you were wearing […] 1820, [Walter Scott], The Abbot. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC:

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Synonyms

knick-knack · tat · fangle · bric-a-brac · whim-wham · novelty · kickshaw · fandangle · trangam · tchotchke · bauble · folderol · mathom · gewgaw · fizgig · trinket