bauble

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English bable, babel, babull, babulle, from Old French babel, baubel (“trinket, child's toy”), most likely a reduplication of bel, ultimately from Latin bellus (“pretty”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [ˈbɔːbəɫ] (Scots) IPA(key): [ˈbɒbəɫ] (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɔbəl/ (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈbɑbəl/ Rhymes: -ɔːbəl Homophone: bobble (cot–caught merger) === Noun === bauble (plural baubles) A cheap showy ornament or piece of jewellery; a gewgaw. (figurative, by extension) Anything trivial and worthless. A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees. A club or sceptre carried by a jester. ==== Synonyms ==== (showy ornament): See also: Thesaurus:trinket ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === bauble on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Bauble in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) === Anagrams === bubale