| 单词 | knickknack |
| 释义 | knickknack (once / 25977 pages) n You might love your tiny ceramic cat wearing a sombrero, but it’s just a knickknack, a small collectible ornament. A knickknack isn’t valuable — except sentimentally. Little statues, candles in quirky shapes, or prizes found inside cereal boxes, are all knickknacks. Anything that decorates or clutters the shelves of someone's home, especially if it's basically worthless, is a knickknack. The word knickknack was originally a 16th century version of "dirty trick," from knack, and its now-obsolete meaning "deception or trick." Don’t freak out if it’s spelled knick-knack because that’s ok too. WORD FAMILYknickknack: knickknackery, knickknacks+/knickknackery: knickknackeries USAGE EXAMPLESAnd the store sells books on subjects similar to those in the library as well as odd knickknacks like individual human teeth. New York Times(Dec 21, 2016) No, you won’t have to carpet or wallpaper your kid’s dorm room, but even minimal decorations such as posters, lights and knickknacks have a price. Washington Post(Nov 25, 2016) Not two years later, they were selling food and diapers, handcrafted knickknacks and just about anything else an imagination could scrape together. Los Angeles Times(Nov 26, 2016) 1n a small inexpensive mass-produced article Syn|Hyper novelty article one of a class of artifacts 2n miscellaneous curios Syn|Hyper bric-a-brac, knickknackery, nicknack, whatnot curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting |
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