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trinkety

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Etymology

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From trinket +‎ -y.

Adjective

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trinkety (comparative more trinkety, superlative most trinkety)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a trinket; gaudy and worthless.
    • 2008 January 6, Virginia Heffernan, “An Interface of One’s Own”, in New York Times[1]:
      Goodbye to Word’s prim rulers, its officious yardsticks, its self-serious formatting toolbar with cryptic abbreviations (ComicSansMS?) and trinkety icons.