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Trinket definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRINK'ET, n.
1. A small ornament, as a jewel, a ring and the like.
2. A thing of little value; tackle; tools.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal, trinket]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: circa 1527 1. a small ornament (as a jewel or ring) 2. a small article of equipment 3. a thing of little value ; trifle

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a trifling ornament, jewel, etc., esp. one worn on the person. Derivatives: trinketry n. Etymology: 16th c.: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Trinket Trin"ket, n. [OE. trenket a sort of knife, hence, probably, a toy knife worn as an ornament; probably from an Old French dialectic form of trenchier to cut. Cf. Trench, v. t.] 1. A knife; a cutting tool. --Tusser. 2. A small ornament, as a jewel, ring, or the like. 3. A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Trinket Trin"ket, v. i. To give trinkets; hence, to court favor; to intrigue. [Obs.] --South.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Trinket Trin"ket, n. [F. trinquet foremast, also, a certain sail, trinquette a triangular sail, or Sp. trinquete triangular.] (Naut.) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard. Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands. --Hakluyt.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(trinkets) A trinket is a pretty piece of jewellery or small ornament that is inexpensive. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Toy, bawble, knick-knack, gewgaw, gimcrack, whim-wham, trifle, bagatelle. 2. (Naut.) Top-sail, top-gallant sail.

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, cricket bat, cue, curio, doll, doll carriage, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, golf club, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, hobbyhorse, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, jest, joke, kickshaw, knack, knickknack, knickknackery, marble, marionette, mig, minikin, mockery, molehill, novelty, paper doll, peppercorn, picayune, pick-up sticks, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pinwheel, plaything, puppet, racket, rag doll, rap, red cent, rocking horse, row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, sport, steelie, straw, taw, teetotum, tinsel, top, toy, toy soldier, trifle, trine, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, whatnot, whim-wham