Now dial. or colloq. Also 7 trinckam, trinkom, 8–9 -cum, 9 -krum. [app. a humorous alteration of trinket, with latinized ending.] A trinket.
1667. Cotton, Scarron., IV. 125. Scarce had she thus dispos’d her trinckums, When up the Stairs, behold the Queen comes.
1699. J. Dunton, Life & Err. (1818), II. xvii. 537. Good store of holy water … and of several other consecrated trinckams.
1774. Poetry, in Ann. Reg., 224. Very fine ladies with very fine incomes, which they finely lay out on fine toys and fine trincums.
1819. Scott, Lett. to J. Richardson, 22 Aug., in Lockhart. He had a world of trinkums to get, for you know there goes as much to the man-millinery of a young officer of hussars as to that of an heiress on her bridal day.
1892. Sarah Hewett, Peas. Sp. Devon., 136. I put a vew trinkrums about a ’undered yers old in a smal box.
Also reduplicated, Trinkum-trankum (also tringum-trangum, tringham trangham) slang and dial.; also attrib.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Tringum-Trangum, a Whim, or Maggot.
1702. Steele, Funeral, II. ii. Come, come, this is not one of your Tringham Trangham witty things, that your poor poets write.
1718. Motteux, Quix., I. III. vi. (1749), 154. Toralva … comes after him bare-foot … with a pilgrim’s staff in her hand, and a wallet at her back wherein … she carry’d a piece of a looking-glass,… a broken pot with paint, and I don’t know what other trinkums trankums to prink herself up.
1821. Galt, Ann. Parish, xii. Trinkum-trankum flowers and feathers.
1842. Blackw. Mag., LI. 23. Cheap gun shops, trinkum-trankum shops.
