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knick-knacks

knick-knacks is the plural of knick-knack.

Meaning of knick-knack

Noun

knick-knack (plural knick-knacks)

  1. A small ornament or other object of minor value.
    • Our Cutler, who had now a great Stock of things of his Handy-work, gave them some little Knick Knacks, as Plates of Silver and of Iron, cut Diamond Fashion, and cut into Hearts and into Rings, and they were mightily pleased.1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], J[ohn] Graves […], A[nne] Dodd, […], and T[homas] Warner, […], →OCLC...

Questions about knick-knacks

What is knick-knacks the plural of?
Knick-knacks is the plural of knick-knack.

Words near knick-knacks in the dictionary

  1. knick points
  2. knick-knack
  3. knick-knack drawer
  4. knick-knack drawers
  5. knick-knackery
  6. knick-knacks
  7. knick-knacky
  8. knick-knock
  9. knicked
  10. knicked off
  11. knicker

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