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单词 trinkum
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trinkumn.

/ˈtrɪŋkəm/
Forms: Also 1600s trinckam, trinkom, 1700s–1800s trincum, 1800s trinkrum.
Etymology: apparently a humorous alteration of trinket, with latinized ending.
Now dialect or colloquial.
A trinket.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > cheap or gaudy > gewgaw or trinket
baublec1330
gaudc1430
gayc1475
strincate1489
trim-tram1523
gewgawa1529
trinketa1533
toy1548
gaudy1555
baublery1583
trinkilo1631
jingle-jangle1640
prettiness1649
trinkum1665
knacka1677
knick-knack1682
trinkum-trankum1699
knick-knacket1793
knick-knackery1812
trankum1819
gaw1822
pretty1882
trinklet1897
mathom1954
tchotchke1968
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > Roman Catholic > [noun]
trinketc1525
baggage1549
trinkum1665
Roman1882
trinklet1897
1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 109 Scarce had she thus dispos'd her trinckums, When up the staires behold the Queen comes.
1699 J. Dunton Dublin Scuffle 333 Good store of Holy Water..and of several other consecrated Trinckams.
1774 Poetry in Ann. Reg. 224 Very fine ladies with very fine incomes, Which they finely lay out on fine toys and fine trincums.
1819 W. Scott Let. 22 Aug. (1933) V. 467 He had a world of trinkums to get, for you know there goes as much to the man-millinery of a young officer of hussars as to that of an heiress on her bridal day.
1892 in S. Hewett Peasant Speech Devon 136 I put a vew trinkrums about a 'undered yers old in a smāl box.

Derivatives

Also reduplicated.
ˈtrinkum-ˈtrankum n. (also tringum-trangum, tringham trangham) slang and dialect also attributive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > cheap or gaudy > gewgaw or trinket
baublec1330
gaudc1430
gayc1475
strincate1489
trim-tram1523
gewgawa1529
trinketa1533
toy1548
gaudy1555
baublery1583
trinkilo1631
jingle-jangle1640
prettiness1649
trinkum1665
knacka1677
knick-knack1682
trinkum-trankum1699
knick-knacket1793
knick-knackery1812
trankum1819
gaw1822
pretty1882
trinklet1897
mathom1954
tchotchke1968
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Tringum-Trangum, a Whim, or Maggot.
1702 R. Steele Funeral ii. 27 Come, Come—This is not one of your Tringham Trangham Witty things, that your Poor poets write.
1718 P. Motteux Don Quixote (1749) i. iii. vi. 154 Toralva..comes after him bare-foot..with a pilgrim's staff in her hand, and a wallet at her back wherein..she carry'd a piece of a looking-glass,..a broken pot with paint, and I don't know what other trinkums trankums to prink herself up.
1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xii. 118 Trinkum-trankum flowers and feathers.
1842 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 51 23 Cheap gun shops, trinkum-trankum shops.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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