Aranan: biblo

trinket

/ˈtɹɪŋkɪt/

Giriş yap, bu kelimeyi “Kelimelerim”e ekle.

Çeviriler

isim

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

  1. isim A small, showy ornament, especially a piece of jewellery.

    “That little trinket around her neck must have cost a bundle.”

  2. isim A thing of little practical and/or monetary value; a toy, a trifle.

    “It’s only a little trinket, but it reminds her of him.”

  3. isim A small item of food; a small dainty.

    “[L]et Tim send the ale and the sack, and the nipperkin of double-distilled, with a bit of diet-loaf, or some such trinket, and score it to the new comer.”

  4. isim A small item forming part of a set of equipment; an accessory, an accoutrement.

    “Good huſbandes that laye, to ſaue all thing vpright: / for Tumbrels and cartes, haue a ſhed redy dight. / A ſtore houſe for trinkets, kept cloſe as a iayle: / that nothing be wanting, the worthe of a nayle.”

  5. isim An item used in a religious rite (also, a religious rite, belief, etc.) regarded as superfluous or trivial.
  6. fiil Often followed by out: to adorn (someone or something) with trinkets (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1).

    “Oh! those were good Dame Nature’s times! / How memories sweet o’er-swarm us, / Ere wasp-like forms were girt around / With ‘bustles’ so enormous; / When modest arms were never bared / And trinketed for show, / Nor ever left their hiding-place, / Save to be hid in dough!”

  7. isim A narrow or small watercourse.

    “It must have been about the same moment that a smack drew through the fine mist in the Firth [of Forth], and, sailing up the trinket, landed Provost Trail on the east pier-head.”

  8. isim A small vessel for drinking from; a cup, a mug, a porringer.

    “Mrs. Bargrave asked her, vvhether ſhe vvould not drink ſome Tea. Says Mrs. Veal, I do not care if I do: But I'le VVarrant this Mad Fellovv (meaning Mrs. Bargraves Husband,) has broke all your Trinckets.”

  9. isim A small sail, specifically, a three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.

    “[H]ee ſet up the trinkets or ſmall ſailes, meaning to make vvay into the deepe, commanding them that follovved ſtill, to make head, and direct their provvs againſt the right vving neere the land.”

  10. fiil To act in a secret, and often dishonest, way; to have secret, and often dishonest, dealings; to intrigue, to scheme.

    “All this I was ready to do for a woman, who trinkets and traffics with my worst foes!”

Eş anlamlılar

bauble novelty bric-a-brac fandangle fangle fizgig folderol gewgaw kickshaw knick-knack mathom tat tchotchke trangam whim-wham bagatelle bag of shells dicky dicky-bird fico