subs. (American).—A thing of little worth; a pretty but useless toy; a GIMCRACK (q.v.).
1848. W. T. THOMPSON, Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel, p. 8. Byin fineries and northern GIGAMAREES of one kind or another. Ibid, p. 156. I ax’d the captain what sort of a GIGAMAREE he had got up there for a flag?
