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knickknack

or nick·nack

[ nik-nak ]

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noun

1610–20; gradational compound based on knack in obsolete sense “toy”

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.

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