Trinket vs Trinketlike - What's the difference?
trinket | trinketlike |
A small showy ornament or piece of jewelry
A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.
(nautical) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.
* Hakluyt
(obsolete) A knife; a cutting tool.
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
, passage=At Bonakdar his atomlike sculptures —? composed of mirrored rings and intersecting discs ?— look more trinketlike than transcendent. }}
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)- That little trinket around her neck must have cost a bundle.
- It's only a little trinket , but it reminds her of him.
- Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands.
- (Tusser)
Synonyms
* (small ornament) See also: * (item of little value) See also:Anagrams
* ----trinketlike
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Adjective
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