knickknack

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Because the shop could be really cool and eclectic and knickknack-y and all that, but where you do your tattoos you have to be able to eat your meal.

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  1. noun A small ornamental article; a trinket.

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  • Monitoring gifts, according to Dawson, is difficult, because she depends on the fact that they are properly reported; she can't very well go out and poke around the ministerial knickknack shelf. —  Macleans.ca
  • Though low tables of (mostly technical) volumes line the sidewalks, these seem to be equaled or outnumbered by stationery, electronic and knickknack shops. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
  • Though low tables of (mostly technical) volumes line the sidewalks, they seem to be equaled or outnumbered by stationery, electronics and knickknack shops. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
  • Because the shop could be really cool and eclectic and knickknack-y and all that, but where you do your tattoos you have to be able to eat your meal. —  AskMen.com - HOME PAGE
  • The only flora we had in the house were Mom's snake plants, about ten of them, which migrated from one knickknack shelf to another every few weeks. —  Planet Atheism
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Reduplication of knack.

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  1. Also spelled nicknack; a varied redupl. of knack: see knack, n., 4.
 

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/ˈnɪknæk/
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