Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The class of things called knickknacks; pretty or curious trifles collectively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Knickknacks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Various
trinkets ornovelties ;bric-a-brac .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun miscellaneous curios
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Examples
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My neighborhood was filled with aspiring Blondies and Dagwoods, clotting their life's blood with knickknackery, soulless trophies, and the latest gizmos.
PopMatters 2009
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My neighborhood was filled with aspiring Blondies and Dagwoods, clotting their life's blood with knickknackery, soulless trophies, and the latest gizmos.
PopMatters 2009
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Mysterio lay in the ruins of the Empire State Gift Shoppe, surrounded by broken glass, fluttering postcards, and the assorted knickknackery of Tourist Central: snowglobes, stuffed animals in I Love New York't-shirts, plastic replicas of the Statue of Liberty with thermometers in them, and a life-size cardboard cutout of a talented lady dancer who had been foolish enough to devote the best years of her career to a musical which required her to put on tiger stripes and pretend she was a cat.
The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001
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And now I am home, with dinner-makings and a new piece of terrace-knickknackery, and the J’s are awake and the cat is healthy and hydrated and happy.
inconsequentia 2008
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And now I am home, with dinner-makings and a new piece of terrace-knickknackery, and the J’s are awake and the cat is healthy and hydrated and happy.
Yatima » 2008 » July 2008
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