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trinkety

adj

Etymology

From trinket + -y.

  1. derived from *trincare✻ — “to cut off (the head)”
  2. derived from *tréyes✻ — “three”
  3. derived from tri-
  4. derived from *trinicāre✻ — “to cut into three parts”
  5. derived from *twerḱ-✻ — “to carve; to cut off, trim”
  6. derived from truncāre
  7. derived from trenche
  8. derived from trencque
  9. suffixed as trinkety — “trinket + y”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a trinket

    Resembling or characteristic of a trinket; gaudy and worthless.

    • Goodbye to Word’s prim rulers, its officious yardsticks, its self-serious formatting toolbar with cryptic abbreviations (ComicSansMS?) and trinkety icons.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for trinkety. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA