Meaning & use
Knicknacks
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Small decorative objects or trinkets of little practical value, typically displayed for ornamentation; a variant spelling of "knickknacks."
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The shelves were cluttered with knicknacks collected from decades of travel.
She dusted the porcelain knicknacks lining the mantelpiece every Sunday.
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The standard spelling is "knickknacks," but "knicknacks" appears often enough in casual writing to be a recognized variant.
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