Mathom

Quick meaning: Mathom is a noun meaning A trinket or piece of bric-a-brac; a knick-knack, often used in regifting.

Meaning

A trinket or piece of bric-a-brac; a knick-knack, often used in regifting.

Example Sentences

They turned out to be the same sort of detritus as everything else. Junk and mathoms and useless geegaws.

A mathom is an object you don't want but can't stand to give away or throw away. Do you have a mathom? Most of us do.

The first person to put a marker on a piece of land or ancestral mathom and say 'this is mine' was the first owner of capital, the first thief, the first magician.

They store seemingly useless articles for future use, calling their collected stuff mathom. Far from being "junk" that we would discard, these leftovers are precious matter to the hobbits, for the word mathom means "treasure" in Anglo-Saxon.

Word Forms

• mathoms
• mathum

Synonyms for mathom

Depending on context, synonyms include trinket.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bibelot, knickknackery, trinketing, trinket, nicknackery, knick-knack.

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