a. [f. KNICK-KNACK + -ISH.] Of the character of a knick-knack; light, trifling, flimsy.
1824. New Monthly Mag., X. 165. A fondness for all that is neat, effeminate, finical, and nick-knackish.
1844. Fraser’s Mag., XXX. 55/1. The plan of this dinner … was … a trifle too knick-knackish [mispr. -ashish].
