“knick、knackatory”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

knick-knackatory

释义

knick-knackatory, nick-nackatory|nɪkˈnækətərɪ|
Also 8 nick-kn-.
[f. knick-knack after conservatory, laboratory, etc.]
A repository of knick-knacks. Also loosely, a knick-knack.
a1704T. Brown Wks. (1760) II. 15, I keep a nicknackatory, or toy-shop.1721Amherst Terræ Fil. No. 34. (1754) 178, I went..to the [Ashmolean] musæum, vulgarly called the nicknackatory.a1734North Lives (1826) II. 180 He was single, and his house a sort of knick-knackatory.1812Scott Let. to Miss Baillie 4 Apr. in Lockhart, You see my nick⁓nackatory is well supplied.1819W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XC. 13 Collecting the..nicknackatories of every virtuoso within reach.
Hence knick-knackaˈtorian, -ˈtarian n. and a.: (a) n., one (also nicknackitorian, -arian -aterian) who keeps a ‘knick-knackatory’; a dealer in knick-knacks; (b) adj., devoted to knick-knacks.
1802in Hone Every-day Bk. I. 1284 The plaintiff was a nicknackitarian, that is, a dealer in curiosities.1802Chron. in Ann. Reg. 445/1 A profession technically called a Nicknackitorian, that is a dealer in all manner of curiosities, such as Egyptian mummies, Indian implements,..antique shields, helmets, &c.1842United Service Mag. ii. 7 Those of a knicknackaterian tendency.

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