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ˈknick-ˌknacky, a.
Also nick-nacky.
[f. as prec. + -y1.]
Of, pertaining to, knick-knacks; addicted to knick-knacks; affected, trifling.
1797A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) I. 30 The parsonage, which the knick-knackey taste of the late incumbent had rendered like [etc.]. 1821Blackw. Mag. X. 201 That any nick-knacky gentleman, like Hope, could..inhale from Byron's works the spirit of his bold, satirical, and libertine genius. 1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. viii, His dressing-room is..so neat and nicknacky. 1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 519 John Hallett..was rather knick-knacky in his tastes; a great patron of small inventions. |