knickknack
knickknack is the alternative spelling of knick-knack.
Meaning of knick-knack
Noun
knick-knack (plural knick-knacks)
- 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...
Forms of knickknack
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Words formed from knickknack
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