trinkum Now dial. or colloq.
(ˈtrɪŋkəm)
Also 7 trinckam, trinkom, 8–9 -cum, 9 -krum.
[app. a humorous alteration of trinket, with latinized ending.]
A trinket.
| 1667 Cotton Scarron. iv. 125 Scarce had she thus dispos'd her trinckums, When up the Stairs, behold the Queen comes. 1699 J. Dunton Life & Err. (1818) II. xvii. 537 Good store of holy water..and of several other consecrated trinckams. 1774 Poetry in Ann. Reg. 224 Very fine ladies with very fine incomes, Which they finely lay out on fine toys and fine trincums. 1819 Scott Let. to J. Richardson 22 Aug., in Lockhart, He had a world of trinkums to get, for you know there goes as much to the man-millinery of a young officer of hussars as to that of an heiress on her bridal day. 1892 S. Hewett Peas. Sp. Devon. 136, I put a vew trinkrums about a 'undered yers old in a smal box. |
Also reduplicated, ˈtrinkum-ˈtrankum (also tringum-trangum, tringham trangham) slang and dial.; also attrib.
| a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Tringum-Trangum, a Whim, or Maggot. 1702 Steele Funeral ii. ii, Come, come, this is not one of your Tringham Trangham witty things, that your poor poets write. 1718 Motteux Quix. i. iii. vi. (1749) 154 Toralva..comes after him bare-foot..with a pilgrim's staff in her hand, and a wallet at her back wherein..she carry'd a piece of a looking-glass,..a broken pot with paint, and I don't know what other trinkums trankums to prink herself up. 1821 Galt Ann. Parish xii, Trinkum-trankum flowers and feathers. 1842 Blackw. Mag. LI. 23 Cheap gun shops, trinkum-trankum shops. |