Antonyms for knick-knack
| Grammar : Noun |
Definition of knick-knack
Origin :- also knickknack, 1570s, reduplication of knack "stratagem, trick."
- As in novelty : noun trinket, gadget
- As in bric-a-brac : noun curios
- As in gewgaw : noun novelty
- Wasn't it heart-rending, that knick-knack shop which they had stuck beside it?
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- "Perhaps one or two smaller things, a knick-knack or two," he moaned.
- Extract from : « The Law Inevitable » by Louis Couperus
- It is on a little stand on my knick-knack table—and looks so well!
- Extract from : « Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books » by Horatia K. F. Eden
- In half an hour, not a corner remained unexplored, not a knick-knack unlifted.
- Extract from : « The Eight Strokes of the Clock » by Maurice Le Blanc
- This definition of the knick-knack fairly indicates the general level of our artistic competence.
- Extract from : « The Decoration of Houses » by Edith Wharton
- Another traced her likeness in a few words, and described her as if she had been some knick-knack for sale at an auction.
- Extract from : « The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume II (of 8) » by Guy de Maupassant
- And then, a woman who gives fifteen hundred francs for a knick-knack is not to be met with every day.
- Extract from : « The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume III (of 8) » by Guy de Maupassant
- He stopped, took up a knick-knack, examined it mechanically and then resumed his walk.
- Extract from : « The Blonde Lady » by Maurice Leblanc
- You have had the artistic fancy of ornamenting the left-hand corner with a Tunisian knick-knack which had cost you dear.
- Extract from : « The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 6 » by Guy de Maupassant
Synonyms for knick-knack
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