trinketing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of trinket

plural trinketings

1. obsoleteA trinket; a bauble.

   Methinks yon baubles are more fitting meed Than this same goddess here, so great in awe. Gladly, we trow, ye'd give a larger price Than these poor trinketings, to keep your Freia And have her in your halls. So let it be.

   1899, Richard Wagner, translated by Reginald Rankin, Wagner's Nibelungen Ring

2. obsoleteThe courting of favour.

   Some talk confidently of fresh trinketings with the King, and that Ashburnham is come to London on purpose.

   1893, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649