trinketed

Verb (1)

trinket (third-person singular simple present trinkets, present participle trinketing, simple past and past participle trinketed)

1. (rare, transitive) Often followed by out: to adorn (someone or something) with trinkets (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1).
   • Oh! those were good Dame Nature’s times! / How memories sweet o’er-swarm us, / Ere wasp-like forms were girt around / With ‘bustles’ so enormous; / When modest arms were never bared / And trinketed for show, / Nor ever left their hiding-place, / Save to be hid in dough!1847 June, “an ‘old school’ bard” [pseudonym], “The Good Old Times”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XXIX, number 6, New York, N.Y.: John Allen, […], →OCLC, page 498

Verb (2)

trinket (third-person singular simple present trinkets, present participle trinketing, simple past and past participle trinketed)

1. (Scotland, intransitive, obsolete) To act in a secret, and often dishonest, way; to have secret, and often dishonest, dealings; to intrigue, to scheme.
   • And if any one aſkes me, hovv? and if I be of their Cabinet Council? I ſhall onely ſmile, perceiving they doe not knovv me. I am far from that, or having ever to doe vvith Kings or States in that kind, or pragmatically trinketing vvith State affaires, it being a Rule vvhich I live by, never to aſke...1673, H. I. [pseudonym; Joseph Hill], “Sect[ion] 10. Compliance with England the Onely Meanes of the Commonwealths Continuation.”, in The Interest of These United Provinces. Being a Defence of the...

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