Other forms: trinkets
A trinket is a small ornament of little value. A cheap trinket, a box of trinkets, buy a trinket.
The judgement of worthlessness is in the word, so nobody calls their own treasured keepsake a trinket. Trinkets and beads is the standing phrase for what colonists offered in exchange for land, and the phrase carries its own history.
1nountrinketA small ornament of little value.
“The market stalls sold cheap trinkets like keyrings and plastic bracelets.”
trinket is an ornament.
The origin is unknown, though the word is recorded from the sixteenth century.
The origin of the noun is unknown; the word is possibly related to Old French tryncle (“piece of jewellery”). The following have also been suggested:
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA