knick-knack
noun
a cheap ornament; trinket
knick-knackery
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a word derived from
knick-knack.
Example Sentences
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I would say we have this fight every few months when our house reaches peak knick-knackery and you are forced to part with items so that you can display new acquisitions.
From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2018
On it the concierge was hoisting trunks, and into it was being heaped a promiscuous variety of knick-knackery and wearing apparel.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various
There is, however, a good, respectable look about the streets of the Old Town, and signs of solid business, notwithstanding the collections of knick-knackery and inharmonious plate-glass.
From A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White
I rather fancy not--they tell me he's as savage as an Arab about knick-knackery nowadays.
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper
