trinket /ˈtɹɪŋkɪt/noun 8verb 2forms 3 noun8 •A small, showy ornament, especially a piece of jewellery.That little trinket around her neck must have cost a bundle. •(figurative) 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. •(Ireland, Scotland) 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. — 1901 •(offensive, no longer used) An item used in a religious rite (also, a religious rite, belief, etc.) regarded as superfluous or trivial. •[in the plural] (no longer used) A small item forming part of a set of equipment; an accessory, an accoutrement.Soon you vvill hear the Saucy Stevvard say, / Pack up vvith all your Trinkets, and avvay: […] — 1693 •(no longer used) 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. — 1822 •(dialect, no longer used) A small vessel for drinking from; a cup, a mug, a porringer. •(no longer used) 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. — 1600 verb2 •(rare) Often followed by out: to adorn (someone or something) with trinkets. •(Scotland, no longer used) 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! — 1821 formstrinketed · trinketing · trinkets
