Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A small ornament, such as a piece of jewelry.
- n. A trivial thing; a trifle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A small showy ornament or piece of jewelry
- n. A mere trifle
- v. To give trinkets; to court favour.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.
- n. A knife; a cutting tool.
- n. A small ornament, as a jewel, ring, or the like.
- n. A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.
- intransitive v. To give trinkets; hence, to court favor; to intrigue.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To deal in a small, selfish way; hold secret communication; have private intercourse; intrigue; traffic.
- n. A knife, especially a shoemakers' knife.
- n. A trifling ornament; a jewel for personal wear, especially one of no great value; any small fancy article; a cherished thing of slight worth.
- n. A vessel to drink or eat out of. See the quotations.
- n. A topsail; perhaps, originally, a lateen sail carried on the foremast.
- n. A streamlet.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
Etymologies
Examples
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Once the cache is discovered, it is traditional for finders to choose a trinket from the box and to leave something behind.
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Buy the overpriced trinket from the police charity — or get the ticket.
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Have you bought the mandatory silver and turquoise trinket from a street peddler yet?
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The evidence about the bank robbery was compelling, but that little trinket from the boyfriend hardened everyone’s heart.
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Oh no barbarian, this trinket was a gift from a soldier.
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At least there is scarce a soldier in the Sultan's army who would not give all he has for yonder trinket, which is known throughout the land as the Star of Hassan.
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True love is always bashful, and I loved the girl, whose slender neck the chain had caressed, so madly and senselessly, if you will, that I felt as if the trinket were a living thing, a part and parcel of herself.
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Would it not be a strange vicissitude if the finding of the trinket should be the means of losing the friend?
Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Love in '76 An Incident of the Revolution
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Medicean Venus, the receptacle occasionally serves for a little gold watch, or some other trinket, which is suspended to the neck by a collar of hair, decorated with various ornaments.
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Could they add a brand-name trinket that Anna gives Gray as a good-luck charm, something like a bottle opener from her bar, he asked.
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