Meaning and background
The story behind Trinket
A trinket is a small decorative object or inexpensive piece of jewellery. The noun sometimes has a dismissive sense of being trivial, but it can just as readily suggest something treasured in a collection. Collins gives a qualified, not fully settled earlier history for the word, so there is no case for an overly precise medieval translation. The everyday sense is enough.
- Meaning
- A small, usually inexpensive ornament or piece of jewellery. Source
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Recorded as a dog’s name
Trinket appears in 3 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/tɹɪŋkət/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the first syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/tɹɪŋkət/ · primary stress on syllable 1T R IH1 NG K AH0 T
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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