Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small ornamental article; a trinket.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pleasing trifle; something more ornamental than useful; a trinket; a toy; a kickshaw; an unsubstantial dainty: a word, of very indefinite application, nearly always used in the plural.
- noun A small trick; a deceitful practice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A trifle or toy; a bawble; a gewgaw; a tchotchke.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
knick-knack .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small inexpensive mass-produced article
- noun miscellaneous curios
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You can already buy every kind of knickknack imaginable in Galveston, and if I wanted trinkets, baubles or other tchotchkes I would probably go down to the Strand.
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You can already buy every kind of knickknack imaginable in Galveston, and if I wanted trinkets, baubles or other tchotchkes I would probably go down to the Strand.
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You can already buy every kind of knickknack imaginable in Galveston, and if I wanted trinkets, baubles or other tchotchkes I would probably go down to the Strand.
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You can already buy every kind of knickknack imaginable in Galveston, and if I wanted trinkets, baubles or other tchotchkes I would probably go down to the Strand.
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You can already buy every kind of knickknack imaginable in Galveston, and if I wanted trinkets, baubles or other tchotchkes I would probably go down to the Strand.
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You can already buy every kind of knickknack imaginable in Galveston, and if I wanted trinkets, baubles or other tchotchkes I would probably go down to the Strand.
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You can already buy every kind of knickknack imaginable in Galveston, and if I wanted trinkets, baubles or other tchotchkes I would probably go down to the Strand.
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You can already buy every kind of knickknack imaginable in Galveston, and if I wanted trinkets, baubles or other tchotchkes I would probably go down to the Strand.
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You can already buy every kind of knickknack imaginable in Galveston, and if I wanted trinkets, baubles or other tchotchkes I would probably go down to the Strand.
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You can already buy every kind of knickknack imaginable in Galveston, and if I wanted trinkets, baubles or other tchotchkes I would probably go down to the Strand.
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