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Etymologies
- knack + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I never know where to put all the knick-knacky stuff, so I think it's going to all get thrown in a box and put in the closet.”
“And I have to know it, because there's going to be a jury of these knacky folks, and they're going to decide whether Makepeace Smith is a plain liar, or I am.”
“John Hallett, notwithstanding the roughness of his aspect, was rather knick-knacky in his tastes; a great patron of small inventions, such as the _improved_ ne plus ultra cork-screw, and the latest patent snuffers.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number
“She got splints and set his leg just as knacky, and bandaged it up, and she has tended him like a sick baby ever since.”
“Anne's tickled to death over the whole business, and she has a real knacky way with children, I must say.”
“And as to drink, a man that takes the first glass is as quiet and as merry as a pet lamb; and after the second glass he is as knacky as a monkey; and after the third glass he is as ready for battle as a lion; and after the fourth glass he is like a swine as he is.”
“Wall-E this week, about a robot on some kind of post-apocalyptic planet Earth hard at work building structures and collecting knick-knacky cultural remnants of civilization.”
“At the bottom of the hill, outside a knicky-knacky antiquey sort of shop, I pick up, for a dollar, The Fourth Edition of the Junior Illustrated Encyclopedia of Sport (with an all-new chapter on "winter ski-ing").”
“In my dream, I was at some knick-knacky kind of store, and I found a two-pack of old-school velcro wallets that would be perfect for M&R.”
“After the toys, there’s a bunch of a little knick-knacky things … I’m just looking around my room …”
The Washington Post: Profiles in 'Lost' Fandom: Stuart Kizcek
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