trinkets

Noun (1)

trinket (plural trinkets)

1. A small, showy ornament, especially a piece of jewellery.
   • That little trinket around her neck must have cost a bundle.
2. (figuratively) A thing of little practical and/or monetary value; a toy, a trifle.
   • It’s only a little trinket, but it reminds her of him.

   Synonyms:

   bagatelle, bag of shells, bric-a-brac, dicky, dicky-bird, fico, fig, flamfew, flyspeck, minuity

3. (obsolete) A small item of food; a small dainty.
   • [L]et Tim send the ale and the sack, and the nipperkin of double-distilled, with a bit of diet-loaf, or some such trinket, and score it to the new comer.1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume II (in English), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson...
4. (in plural, obsolete) A small item forming part of a set of equipment; an accessory, an accoutrement.
   • Good huſbandes that laye, to ſaue all thing vpright: / for Tumbrels and cartes, haue a ſhed redy dight. / A ſtore houſe for trinkets, kept cloſe as a iayle: / that nothing be wanting, the worthe of a nayle.1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, “June”, in A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC, stanza 88, signatures C.iii., verso – C.iiii., recto
5. (derogatory, figuratively, obsolete) An item used in a religious rite (also, a religious rite, belief, etc.) regarded as superfluous or trivial.
   • [T]he ſame teachers with Chriſts doctrine mingled Jewiſhnes and ſuperſticious Philoſophie, obſeruing and keping certain poyntes of the lawe, ſuperſticiously alſo honouring the Sunne, the Moone, and ſtarres, with ſuch other trinkettes of this world, hearing the Coloſſiãs [Colossians] in hand that...1549 August 26 (Gregorian calendar), Erasmus, “The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Epistle of the Apostle Saincte Paule to the Colossians. The Argument of the Epistle of Sainct Paule to the Colossians...

Noun (2)

trinket (plural trinkets)

1. (Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland) A narrow or small watercourse.
   • It must have been about the same moment that a smack drew through the fine mist in the Firth [of Forth], and, sailing up the trinket, landed Provost Trail on the east pier-head.1901 September, [David Storrar Meldrum], “The Conquest of Charlotte. Part I.—My Legacy of Family History. Chapter VII.—The Mackerel Election (continued).”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume...

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