“I am not of the neighbourhood,” said Mallow, calmly, “but the matter is irrelevant. I have had the honour to send you a little gift yesterday ——” ¶ The tech-man’s nose lifted. “I received it. An interesting gewgaw. I may have use for it on occasion.” ¶ I have other and more interesting gifts. Quite out of the gewgaw stage.”
2011, Will Self, "The frowniest spot on Earth", London Review of Books, XXXIII.9:
You or I may well view our desire to push buttons and order new electronic gewgaws as the mere reflex spasms of consumerism, but to this dynamic duo the future of the earth depends on our instant gratification more than anything else.