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单词 knick-knackically
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knick-knackicallyadv.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: knick-ˈknackically.
In a knick-knackish way, frivolously.Apparently an isolated use.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adverb] > insubstantially > frivolously
idlec1330
frivolously1611
whifflingly1668
knick-knackically1749
flimsily1787
1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 27 Sept. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1409 Do not run through it, as too many of your young countrymen do, musically, and (to use a ridiculous word) knick-knackically.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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