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trinket | trinketlike |

As a noun trinket

is a small showy ornament or piece of jewelry.

As a verb trinket

is to give trinkets; to court favour.

As an adjective trinketlike is

like a trinket; cheap and showy.

trinket

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small showy ornament or piece of jewelry
  • That little trinket around her neck must have cost a bundle.
  • A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.
  • It's only a little trinket , but it reminds her of him.
  • (nautical) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.
  • * Hakluyt
  • Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands.
  • (obsolete) A knife; a cutting tool.
  • (Tusser)

    Synonyms

    * (small ornament) See also: * (item of little value) See also:

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give trinkets; to court favour.
  • (South)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    trinketlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a trinket; cheap and showy.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 22, author=Karen Rosenberg, title=Cheeky Hipsters in the Halls of Victorian Brigadiers, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=At Bonakdar his atomlike sculptures —? composed of mirrored rings and intersecting discs ?— look more trinketlike than transcendent. }}