trinket

trinket meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

Examples of trinket in a sentence

• Hence is the Fair vvith Ornaments ſupply'd, / Hence ſprung the glitt'ring Implements of Pride; / Each Trinket that adorns the modern Dame, / Firſt to theſe little Artiſts ovv'd its Frame.1713 (indicated as 1714), [John] Gay, “Book I”, in The Fan. A Poem. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 8:
• This [the hawksbill turtle] is the animal that ſupplies the tortoiſe-ſhell, of vvhich ſuch a variety of beautiful trinkets are made.1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of the Tortoise, and Its Kinds”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume VI...
• So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the Tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets.1927, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, “The Great Exhibition”, in Mahadev Desai, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated...
• Soon you vvill hear the Saucy Stevvard ſay, / Pack up vvith all your Trinkets, and avvay: […]1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of...

All 16 example sentences with trinket

Synonyms of trinket

• bagatelle
• bag of shells
• bric-a-brac
• dicky
• dicky-bird
• fig
• flyspeck
• minuity
• niff-naff
• picayune

All synonyms of trinket

Forms of trinket

Plural of trinket: trinkets

Origin of trinket

The origin of the noun is unknown; the word is possibly related to Old French tryncle (“piece of jewellery”). The following have also been suggested: * From Middle English trenket, trynket (“small knife, specifically, a cordwainer’s knife”). * From trick (“plaything, toy; trifle”, noun) or trick (verb). However, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, there is insufficient evidence of any shift of meaning from these words to the current meanings of trinket. The verb is derived from the noun.

PIE word *tréyes From trink (“(UK, dialectal, especially Scotland) channel, watercourse; trench”) + -et (diminutive suffix); compare Scots trink. Trink is possibly derived from Occitan trencque, trenque (Picardy), from Old French trenche, tranche (“trench”) (modern French tranche), from trenchier (“to cut”); further etymology uncertain, possibly: * from Latin truncāre, the present active infinitive of truncō (“to maim or mutilate by cutting off pieces; to truncate”), from truncus (“tree trunk; piece cut off”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *twerḱ- (“to carve; to cut off, trim”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs); or * from Vulgar Latin *trinicāre (“to cut into three parts”), from Latin tri- (prefix meaning ‘three’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”)) + duplicāre (“to double by dividing, split in two, tear”); possibly also influenced by Gaulish *trincare (“to cut off (the head)”).

Origin uncertain, possibly: * from trinket (“small, showy ornament; thing of little value”) (see etymology 1); or * borrowed from Welsh trànked.

Words formed from trinket

• trinketed
• trinketer
• trinkery
• trinketization
• trinketize
• trinketlike
• trinketry
• trinkety
• trinkilo
• trinklement
• trinklet
• trinkum

Related words

• curio
• schwag
• swag

Words that rhyme with trinket

• Tlingit

Questions about trinket

What does trinket mean?

Trinket means a small, showy ornament, especially a piece of jewellery.

What is trinket in Tamil?

Trinket in Tamil is மோதிரம், கால்தண்டை போன்ற சிறிய, மலிவான அணிகலன். See Trinket meaning in Tamil.

How do you use trinket in a sentence?

Hence is the Fair vvith Ornaments ſupply'd, / Hence ſprung the glitt'ring Implements of Pride; / Each Trinket that adorns the modern Dame, / Firſt to theſe little Artiſts ovv'd its Frame.

What part of speech is trinket?

Trinket can be a noun or a verb.

How do you pronounce trinket?

Trinket is pronounced /ˈtɹɪŋkɪt/ (UK).

What is the plural of trinket?

The plural of trinket is trinkets.