knick-knack, knickknack
Knick-knack is the preferred spelling, although this word is sometimes written as a closed compound without a hyphen, knickknack.
- Doug grumbled when asked to dust his curling trophies and other knick-knacks.
- Judith was an avid knick-knack collector and had more than fifty ceramic frogs.
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