knick-knackatory, nick-nackatory
(nɪkˈnækətərɪ)
Also 8 nick-kn-.
[f. knick-knack after conservatory, laboratory, etc.]
A repository of knick-knacks. Also loosely, a knick-knack.
| a 1704 T. Brown Wks. (1760) II. 15, I keep a nicknackatory, or toy-shop. 1721 Amherst Terræ Fil. No. 34. (1754) 178, I went..to the [Ashmolean] musæum, vulgarly called the nicknackatory. a 1734 North Lives (1826) II. 180 He was single, and his house a sort of knick-knackatory. 1812 Scott Let. to Miss Baillie 4 Apr. in Lockhart, You see my nick⁓nackatory is well supplied. 1819 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XC. 13 Collecting the..nicknackatories of every virtuoso within reach. |
Hence knick-knackaˈtorian, -ˈtarian n. and a.: (a) n., one (also nicknackitorian, -arian -aterian) who keeps a ‘knick-knackatory’; a dealer in knick-knacks; (b) adj., devoted to knick-knacks.
| 1802 in Hone Every-day Bk. I. 1284 The plaintiff was a nicknackitarian, that is, a dealer in curiosities. 1802 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 445/1 A profession technically called a Nicknackitorian, that is a dealer in all manner of curiosities, such as Egyptian mummies, Indian implements,..antique shields, helmets, &c. 1842 United Service Mag. ii. 7 Those of a knicknackaterian tendency. |