trinketingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

trinketing

1. present participle of trinket

名詞

trinketing (複数形 trinketings)

1. (obsolete) A trinket; a bauble.
   • 1899, Richard Wagner, Reginald Rankin (translator), Wagner's Nibelungen Ring

     Methinks yon baubles are more fitting meed
     Than this same goddess here, so great in awe.
     Gladly, we trow, ye'd give a larger price
     Than these poor trinketings, to keep your Freia
     And have her in your halls. So let it be.

2. (obsolete) The courting of favour.
   • 1893, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649

     Some talk confidently of fresh trinketings with the King, and that Ashburnham is come to London on purpose.

アナグラム

• reknitting