What is "knickknack"

Usage examples of "knickknack".

Lada carrying Hadit, a Turkmen vendor of sundry cheap plastic knickknacks a selection of which were in the trunk, disappeared into the rain and darkness leaving nothing behind of Vladimir Yaroslav but a fat suit lying on the floor like the shed skin of a snake.

No pictures, no knickknacks or favorite items appeared anywhere in sight.

He could easily put her in a home filled with cut wildflower arrangements, fragile knickknacks that each had special meaning, wind chimes tinkling to welcome in a morning breeze.

Where were the knickknacks, the jukebox, the glowing shelf of pies, the deep maroon booths?

Her world had been inside the house, filled with dark overstuffed furniture, fussy knickknacks, and thin Oriental carpets.

His back screamed at him to put the boy down, but he spiraled Timmy around, hugging him close while his little legs threatened to knock down the knickknacks scattered about.

Alice was born, Mama got the trunk that held all of the quilts, china, crystal, silverware, and knickknacks that Grandma had collected during her lifetime.

Instead of comfortable knickknacks, shelves and tables were crowded with lacquered men on chessboards of ivory, teak and colored glass, each board set for a game in progress.

Instead of comfortable knickknacks, shelves and tables were crowded with lac­quered men on chessboards of ivory, teak and colored glass, each board set for a game in progress.

The antique clocks which had cluttered its shelves, coffee tables, and credenzas during the Duke of Cromarty's tenure had disappeared, replaced by his own knickknacks and memorabilia, but this was the same office from which four T-centuries of prime ministers had governed the Star Kingdom, and his smile reminded her of the power he represented.

The antique clocks which had cluttered its shelves, coffee tables, and credenzas during the Duke of Cromarty’s tenure had disappeared, replaced by his own knickknacks and memorabilia, but this was the same office from which four T-centuries of prime ministers had governed the Star Kingdom, and his smile reminded her of the power he represented.

Hilary noticed that each of the many knickknacks and curios was dustfree and highly polished.

There was an old hair trunk in one corner, and a guitar-box in another, and all sorts of little knickknacks and jimcracks around, like girls brisken up a room with.

So it was that an hour after I described to Christian just how I would geld him (with a grapefruit knife and two egg cups), we sat in his comfortable study with Joy, Raphael, Roxy, and the ghosts (minus Alis, who had been left in an empty bedroom with several inexpensive ceramic knickknacks to amuse her).

I trod a narrow route between fragilities and knickknacks to the kitchen where the fluorescent light over the stove was on.