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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a small inexpensive mass-produced article [syn: knickknack, novelty]
2: miscellaneous curios [syn: bric-a-brac, knickknack, nicknack, knickknackery, whatnot]

Merriam Webster's

also nicknack noun Etymology: reduplication of knack Date: 1682 a small trivial article usually intended for ornament

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Knickknack Knick"knack`, n. [See Knack.] A trifle or toy; a bawble; a gewgaw.

Moby Thesaurus

a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, agate, bagatelle, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, blocks, brass farthing, bric-a-brac, button, cent, checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, cosmetics, cricket bat, cue, curio, dido, doll, doll carriage, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, giftware, gimcrack, golf club, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, hobbyhorse, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, jest, joke, kickshaw, knack, knickknackery, knickknacks, marble, marionette, mig, miniature, minikin, mockery, molehill, notion, notions, novelties, novelty, odds and ends, paper doll, peppercorn, picayune, pick-up sticks, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pinwheel, plaything, pretty-pretty, puppet, racket, rag doll, rap, red cent, rocking horse, row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, souvenir, sport, steelie, straw, sundries, taw, teetotum, toilet goods, toiletries, top, toy, toy soldier, trifle, trinket, triviality, trumpery, tuppence, two cents, twopence, virtu, whatnot, whim-wham