trinketing

trinketing is the present participle and gerund of trinket.

Noun

trinketing (plural trinketings)

(obsolete) A trinket; a bauble.
- Methinks yon baubles are more fitting meed
  Than this same goddess here, so great in awe.
  Gladly, we trow, ye'd give a larger price
  Than these poor trinketings, to keep your Freia
  And have her in your halls. So let it be.1899, Richard Wagner, translated by Reginald Rankin, Wagner's Nibelungen Ring
(obsolete) The courting of favour.
- Some talk confidently of fresh trinketings with the King, and that Ashburnham is come to London on purpose.1893, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649

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

(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

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

(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...

plural	trinketings

What does trinketing mean?: Trinketing means a trinket; a bauble.
What is trinketing the present participle and gerund of?: Trinketing is the present participle and gerund of trinket.
What part of speech is trinketing?: Trinketing is a noun.
What is the plural of trinketing?: The plural of trinketing is trinketings.

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