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knickknack

/nik-nak/US // ˈnɪkˌnæk //UK // (ˈnɪkˌnæk) //

小玩意,小饰品,小玩意儿,小玩意儿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an ornamental trinket or gimcrack; a bit of bric-a-brac.

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Examples

  • Nearly 175 of Capone’s personal items will be auctioned off as his granddaughters seek to share the stories behind his knickknacks, photographs and guns.

  • The girls helped to make the cave more homelike, and the lads appreciated every decoration and knickknack given them.

  • “Perhaps one or two smaller things, a knickknack or two,” he moaned.

  • He well represented the spirit and workmanship of the eighteenth century in the knickknack art of the Second Empire.