GIMCRACK

GIMCRA©K
http://www.gimcrack.info/ giber "to rattle, shake" + M.E. crak "sharp noise, crack." In 18c.-19c.

GIMCRACK - Origin: 1618, "showy person," sense of "trifle" first recorded 1839, of uncertain origin, perhaps alteration of gibecrake "a kind of ornament" (1360), perhaps from O.Fr. it also meant "a person who has a turn for mechanical contrivances."