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nicknack

nicknack is the alternative spelling 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...

Forms of nicknack

pluralnicknacks

Questions about nicknack

What is nicknack the alternative spelling of?
Nicknack is the alternative spelling of knick-knack.

Words near nicknack in the dictionary

  1. Nicklesses
  2. Nicklin
  3. Nicklins
  4. Nicklow
  5. Nicklows
  6. nicknack
  7. nicknackeries
  8. nicknackery
  9. nicknacket
  10. nicknackets
  11. nicknacks

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