a. Also nick-nacky. [f. as prec. + -Y1.] Of, pertaining to, knick-knacks; addicted to knick-knacks; affected, trifling.
1797. Mrs. A. M. Bennett, Beggar Girl (1813), I. 30. The parsonage, which the knick-knackey taste of the late incumbent had rendered like [etc.].
1821. Blackw. Mag., X. 201. That any nick-knacky gentleman, like Hope, could … inhale from Byron’s works the spirit of his bold, satirical, and libertine genius.
1824. Miss Ferrier, Inher., viii. His dressing-room is … so neat and nicknacky.
1828. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. III. (1863), 519. John Hallett … was rather knick-knacky in his tastes; a great patron of small inventions.
