trinklet

English

Noun

trinklet (plural trinklets)

  1. (uncommon) A trinket.
    • 1899, A. D. Dickert, History of Kershaw's brigade, page 461:
      On our arrival at Fort Delaware we were again subjected to a rigid examination and search, and what few trinklets the kind guards saved for us at Harper's Ferry, were now taken away from us.
    • 1962, Frederick J. Hoffman, Marginal Manners: The Variants of Bohemia, page 167:
      Birds gulp his amulets baubles and trinklets. / The clown is dead!
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