单词 | trinkum |
释义 | trinkumn. 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). < n.1665 |
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