ˈbȯbəl, ˈbäb- noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English babel, from Middle French babel, baubel
1. : something that is bright, showy, sometimes expensive, and usually of little use : trinket , gewgaw , plaything
he affixed the bauble , with a kiss, upon her middle finger — Elinor Wylie
2. : a fool's scepter
the licensed jester … brandished his bauble — Sir Walter Scott
3. : a child's toy
a child asleep with a bauble — R.P.Warren
4.
a. : something that is considered childish, foolish, or worthless : trifle
the Right Honorable before my name is a bauble — T.B.Macaulay
b. obsolete : a childish, foolish, or worthless person
thither comes the bauble and falls me thus about my neck — Shakespeare