sb. (a.) Sc. Also 8 trantlin, -lim. [Extension of prec.] A trifle, knick-knack, toy; usually in pl.
1768. Ross, Helenore, I. 32. I came fiercelins in, An’ wi’ my trantlims made a rattlin dinn.
1776. C. Keith, Farmer’s Ha’, xxix. They finger at the trantlims lang.
1841. W. Aitken, Poet. Wks., 67. Your trantlums a’ e’en break or burn.
1896. Crockett, Cleg Kelly, x. To the curbstane ye gang, wi’ a’ your traps and trantlums.
b. attrib. or as adj. Trifling.
1832. Rodger, in Whistle-binkie (1890), I. 147. Their trantlum gear She couldna bear.
