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trinketings

trinketings is the plural of trinketing.

Meaning of trinketing

Noun

trinketing (plural trinketings)

  1. (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
  2. (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

Questions about trinketings

What is trinketings the plural of?
Trinketings is the plural of trinketing.

Words near trinketings in the dictionary

  1. trinket
  2. trinketed
  3. trinketer
  4. trinketers
  5. trinketing
  6. trinketings
  7. trinketization
  8. trinketize
  9. trinketized
  10. trinketizes
  11. trinketizing

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