1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. A gimcrack also means a person who
has a turn for mechanical contrivances.
4. (venery).—The female pudendum. [A play on sense 2, and crack,
(q.v.).] For synonym, see Monosyllable.
Adj. (colloquial).—Trivial; showy; worthless.
1855. Thackeray, Newcomes, ch. ix. No shops so beautiful to look at
as the Brighton gimcrack shops, and the fruit shops, and the
market.
1891. W. C. Russell, An Ocean Tragedy, p. 30. Soberly clothed with
nothing more gimcrack in the way of finery upon him than a row of
waistcoat-buttons.
1892. Tit Bits, 19 Mar., p. 425 c. 2. A large cabinet or wardrobe,
beautifully carved, and very substantial, no gimcrack work.
Gimcrackery, subs. (colloquial).—The world of gimcrack (q.v.).
1884. A. Forbes, in Eng. Illustr. Mag., Jan., p. 230. The inner
life of the Empire was a strange mixture of rottenness and
gimcrackery.
Gimlet-eye, subs. (common).—A squint-eye; a piercer (q.v.). Fr.: des
yeux en trou de pine.
Gimlet-eyed, adj. (common).—Squinting, or squinny-eyed; cock-eyed. As
in the old rhyme: ‘Gimlet eye, sausage nose, Hip awry, bandy toes.’
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
Gimmer, subs. (Scots’).—An old woman. A variant of ‘cummer.’
Gin, subs. (Australian).—An Australian native woman.
1857. Kingsley, Two Years Ago, ch. xiii. An Australian settler’s
wife bestows on some poor slaving gin a cast-off French bonnet.
1890. Hume Nisbet, Bail Up!, p. 30.