Lexicographical Neighbors of Trinkum
Literary usage of Trinkum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1869)
"... but the cap'n he wur always savin' for her, and so wur I —towards that cottage,
you know, sir. Ah ! my poor lass had small pleasure out o' them trinkum- ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1843)
"... could be said for her singing Italian songs, and getting all the newest from
Vauxhal) in London, a box-full at a time, with new novel-books and trinkum- ..."
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