TRINKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trinket mean? 

• TRINKET (noun)
  The noun TRINKET has 1 sense:

1. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing

  Familiarity information: TRINKET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRINKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bangle; bauble; fallal; gaud; gewgaw; novelty; trinket

Hypernyms ("trinket" is a kind of...):

adornment (a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness)

Holonyms ("trinket" is a member of...):

trinketry (trinkets and other ornaments of dress collectively)

 Context examples 

Glumdalclitch wrapped it up in her handkerchief, and carried it home in her pocket, to keep among other trinkets, of which the girl was very fond, as children at her age usually are.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“I did but wish to learn the feel of them, since I am like to have such trinkets hung to my own girdle for some years to come.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the meantime, we had found nothing of any value but the silver and the trinkets, and neither of these were in our way.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then the queen her mother, packed up a great many costly things; jewels, and gold, and silver; trinkets, fine dresses, and in short everything that became a royal bride.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The picture I had before me, of the beautiful little treasure of my heart, sobbing and crying all night—of her being alone, frightened, and wretched, then—of her having so piteously begged and prayed that stony-hearted woman to forgive her—of her having vainly offered her those kisses, work-boxes, and trinkets—of her being in such grievous distress, and all for me—very much impaired the little dignity I had been able to muster.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was entreated to give them as much of her time as possible, invited for every day and all day long, or rather claimed as part of the family; and, in return, she naturally fell into all her wonted ways of attention and assistance, and on Charles's leaving them together, was listening to Mrs Musgrove's history of Louisa, and to Henrietta's of herself, giving opinions on business, and recommendations to shops; with intervals of every help which Mary required, from altering her ribbon to settling her accounts; from finding her keys, and assorting her trinkets, to trying to convince her that she was not ill-used by anybody; which Mary, well amused as she generally was, in her station at a window overlooking the entrance to the Pump Room, could not but have her moments of imagining.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Tarlatan and tulle were cheap at Nice, so she enveloped herself in them on such occasions, and following the sensible English fashion of simple dress for young girls, got up charming little toilettes with fresh flowers, a few trinkets, and all manner of dainty devices, which were both inexpensive and effective.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Under that, the miscellany began—a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It cost him no effort to be generous, and he would have given Amy all the trinkets in Nice if she would have taken them, but at the same time he felt that he could not change the opinion she was forming of him, and he rather dreaded the keen blue eyes that seemed to watch him with such half-sorrowful, half-scornful surprise.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When all were ready, the king sent them to her; but she got up in the night when all were asleep, and took three of her trinkets, a golden ring, a golden necklace, and a golden brooch, and packed the three dresses—of the sun, the moon, and the stars—up in a nutshell, and wrapped herself up in the mantle made of all sorts of fur, and besmeared her face and hands with soot.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)