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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

trinket
    n 1: cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle,
         bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal, trinket]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Trinket \Trin"ket\, v. i.
   To give trinkets; hence, to court favor; to intrigue. [Obs.]
   --South.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Trinket \Trin"ket\, n. [F. trinquet foremast, also, a certain
   sail, trinquette a triangular sail, or Sp. trinquete
   triangular.] (Naut.)
   A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast,
   probably on a lateen yard.
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         Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket
         warily in our hands.                     --Hakluyt.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Trinket \Trin"ket\, n. [OE. trenket a sort of knife, hence,
   probably, a toy knife worn as an ornament; probably from an
   Old French dialectic form of trenchier to cut. Cf. Trench,
   v. t.]
   1. A knife; a cutting tool. --Tusser.
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   2. A small ornament, as a jewel, ring, or the like.
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   3. A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.
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Thesaurus Results for Trinket:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, agate, bagatelle, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, blocks, brass farthing, bric-a-brac, button, cent, checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, cricket bat, cue, curio, doll, doll carriage, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, golf club, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, hobbyhorse, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, jest, joke, kickshaw, knack, knickknack, knickknackery, marble, marionette, mig, minikin, mockery, molehill, novelty, paper doll, peppercorn, picayune, pick-up sticks, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pinwheel, plaything, puppet, racket, rag doll, rap, red cent, rocking horse, row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, sport, steelie, straw, taw, teetotum, tinsel, top, toy, toy soldier, trifle, trine, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, whatnot, whim-wham

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