bric-a-bracn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈbrɪkəbrak/, U.S.

/ˈbrɪkəˌbræk/

Forms: 1800s– bric-à-brac, 1800s– bric-a-brac, 1800s– bric-a-brack, 1800s– brick-a-brack, 2000s– bric-à-brack (rare), 2000s– bric-a-braque (rare), 2000s– brick-à-brack (rare), 2000s– brique-à-braque (rare), 2000s– brique-a-braque (rare); also without hyphens, and as one word.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French bric-à-brac.

Etymology: < French bric-à-brac miscellaneous, unordered objects of little value (1825), apparently contracted < †à bricq et à bracq randomly, willy-nilly (1616) < à at, for, to + an element apparently of expressive origin + et and + à + an element similar to the second, with vowel variation, probably after similarly-formed phrases such as à tort et à travers , in the same sense (1316 in Old French: see à tort et à travers adv.).

A. n.

1. Miscellaneous small objects and ornaments which are typically old or antique but regarded as having little value; knick-knacks.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > bric-a-brac

bric-a-brac1830

bric-a-brackery1858

1830 tr. A. de Bast in Foreign Lit. Gaz. 20 Jan. 44/3 A poor dealer in knicknacks and bric-à-brac [Fr. bric-à-brac].

1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip I. xvi. 299 All the valuables of the house, including, perhaps, J. J.'s bricabrac, cabinets, china, and so forth.

1875 M. E. Braddon Strange World I. iv. 67 That bric-a-brac upon which the Bellingham race had squandered a small fortune.

1959 Life 29 June 105 Victorian bric-a-brac is also plentiful and fairly cheap.

1981 New York 2 Nov. 51/2 Furniture, books, clothing, and bric-a-brac are sold at Goodwill's eight city stores.

2016 Telegraph (Nexis) 12 Aug. The wood-panelled lobby and red-carpeted lounge and dining room are stuffed full of bric-à-brac: a parachuting marmot here, a cheese-making paddle there, with some model rally cars and wall-mounted chamois heads thrown in for good measure.

2. In extended use: any miscellaneous articles or detritus that have accumulated; a confused mixture.

ΚΠ

1842 Times 17 Jan. 3/5 The landed evolutions of these chance-medley troops, the bric-à-brac of Bellona's repository, consisted of nothing more complicated than forming into line, breaking into echelons, and marching past their Majesties.

1912 Boston Cooking-school Mag. Mar. 369/2 The addition of highly seasoned sauces often makes bric-a-brac of a food.

?1955 M. Stewart Madam, will you Talk? i. 7 There had been love and lust and revenge and fear and murder—all the blood-tragedy bric-à-brac.

2005 New Statesman 7 Mar. 30/2 Through poverty of imagination or sheer posturing phoniness we tend to gather the bric-a-brac of the past into an unsightly heap, good, bad or..patently idiotic.

B. adj.

Reminiscent of bric-a-brac; esp. varied in nature or character; composed of disparate elements; miscellaneous; eclectic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > bric-a-brac

bric-a-brac1872

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch III. v. xliii. 13 I think he is a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-à-brac, but likable.

1917 tr. J.-J. Frappa in Lotus Mag. Apr. 323/2 Balconies..no longer have style, being of all styles... In this department, as in all architecture, the twentieth century has a bric-a-brac taste.

1988 Mississippi Rev. 16 282 Cyberpunk..is a bric-a-brac mosaic with elements of Burroughs and Pynchon but also of beat new journalism and of underground comix.

2007 Bitch Winter 88/2 An auditory playground of glorps, sputters, and bric-a-brac instrumentation.

Compounds

General attributive (in sense A. 1), as bric-a-brac man, bric-a-brac shop, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling fancy goods or curios

gaudy-shopa1627

toy shop1691

knick-knackatory1702

knackatory1709

bazaar1807

curiosity-shop1818

bric-a-brac shop1840

novelty store1874

novelty shop1893

odditorium1914

gift shop1918

curio-shop1920

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > sellers of other specific things

soaper?c1225

oilman1275

smear-monger1297

upholder1333

basket-seller?1518

broom-seller?1518

upholster1554

rod-woman1602

starchwoman1604

pin manc1680

colour seller1685

potato-woman1697

printseller1700

rag-seller1700

Greenwich barber1785

sandboy1821

iceman1834

umbrella man1851

fly-boy1861

snuff-boxera1871

pedlar1872

snake-boy1873

bric-a-brac man1876

tinwoman1884

resurrectionist1888

butch1891

paanwallah1955

1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. II. 267 The palace of Versailles has been turned into a bricabrac shop.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lxvii. 314 Haven't an affair in the world..except a quarrel with a bric-à-brac man.

1949 Illustr. London News 10 Dec. 916/3 He roamed about side-streets and soon became a familiar figure to bric-à-brac dealers who regularly found him what he wanted.

2018 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 30 June There are still a few independent cafés, record shops, crafters and bric-a-brac purveyors.

Derivatives

ˈbric-a-bracker n. colloquial (often humorous) now rare a merchant who deals in bric-a-brac; (also) a collector of bric-a-brac.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial > one who collects

bric-a-bracker1876

1876 Art Jrnl. June 175/1 He is near to several enterprising bric-a-brackers possessing shops.

1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xx. 187 I am content to be a brick-a-bracker.

2001 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 22 Sept. (Late ed.) 9 Auction houses such as Gavan Hardy give bric-a-brackers the opportunity to fight it out gavel-side with serious collectors and specialist dealers.

ˈbric-a-brackery n. (also bric-a-braquerie) items of bric-a-brac collectively; (also) the activity of collecting bric-a-brac; trade in bric-a-brac.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > bric-a-brac

bric-a-brac1830

bric-a-brackery1858

1858 Money Bag No. 2. 75 He gave foolish prices for pictures and statues, and was insanely fond of all sorts of bricabraquerie.

1968 H. J. Hunt tr. H. de Balzac Cousin Pons vi. 61 This Rémonencq, who..had promoted himself to the status of dealer in curiosities, was..well aware of Pons's standing in bric-à-braquerie.

2002 Boston Irish Reporter 30 Apr. 10 The stained sweatshirts, the medals, the bits and pieces of desperate bric-a-brackery that is all that is left of the thousands who died.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bric-a-brac
释义	bric-a-bracn.adj. Brit. /ˈbrɪkəbrak/, U.S. /ˈbrɪkəˌbræk/ Forms: 1800s– bric-à-brac, 1800s– bric-a-brac, 1800s– bric-a-brack, 1800s– brick-a-brack, 2000s– bric-à-brack (rare), 2000s– bric-a-braque (rare), 2000s– brick-à-brack (rare), 2000s– brique-à-braque (rare), 2000s– brique-a-braque (rare); also without hyphens, and as one word. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French bric-à-brac. Etymology: < French bric-à-brac miscellaneous, unordered objects of little value (1825), apparently contracted < †à bricq et à bracq randomly, willy-nilly (1616) < à at, for, to + an element apparently of expressive origin + et and + à + an element similar to the second, with vowel variation, probably after similarly-formed phrases such as à tort et à travers , in the same sense (1316 in Old French: see à tort et à travers adv.). A. n. 1. Miscellaneous small objects and ornaments which are typically old or antique but regarded as having little value; knick-knacks. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > bric-a-brac bric-a-brac1830 bric-a-brackery1858 1830 tr. A. de Bast in Foreign Lit. Gaz. 20 Jan. 44/3 A poor dealer in knicknacks and bric-à-brac [Fr. bric-à-brac]. 1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip I. xvi. 299 All the valuables of the house, including, perhaps, J. J.'s bricabrac, cabinets, china, and so forth. 1875 M. E. Braddon Strange World I. iv. 67 That bric-a-brac upon which the Bellingham race had squandered a small fortune. 1959 Life 29 June 105 Victorian bric-a-brac is also plentiful and fairly cheap. 1981 New York 2 Nov. 51/2 Furniture, books, clothing, and bric-a-brac are sold at Goodwill's eight city stores. 2016 Telegraph (Nexis) 12 Aug. The wood-panelled lobby and red-carpeted lounge and dining room are stuffed full of bric-à-brac: a parachuting marmot here, a cheese-making paddle there, with some model rally cars and wall-mounted chamois heads thrown in for good measure. 2. In extended use: any miscellaneous articles or detritus that have accumulated; a confused mixture. ΚΠ 1842 Times 17 Jan. 3/5 The landed evolutions of these chance-medley troops, the bric-à-brac of Bellona's repository, consisted of nothing more complicated than forming into line, breaking into echelons, and marching past their Majesties. 1912 Boston Cooking-school Mag. Mar. 369/2 The addition of highly seasoned sauces often makes bric-a-brac of a food. ?1955 M. Stewart Madam, will you Talk? i. 7 There had been love and lust and revenge and fear and murder—all the blood-tragedy bric-à-brac. 2005 New Statesman 7 Mar. 30/2 Through poverty of imagination or sheer posturing phoniness we tend to gather the bric-a-brac of the past into an unsightly heap, good, bad or..patently idiotic. B. adj. Reminiscent of bric-a-brac; esp. varied in nature or character; composed of disparate elements; miscellaneous; eclectic. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > bric-a-brac bric-a-brac1872 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch III. v. xliii. 13 I think he is a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-à-brac, but likable. 1917 tr. J.-J. Frappa in Lotus Mag. Apr. 323/2 Balconies..no longer have style, being of all styles... In this department, as in all architecture, the twentieth century has a bric-a-brac taste. 1988 Mississippi Rev. 16 282 Cyberpunk..is a bric-a-brac mosaic with elements of Burroughs and Pynchon but also of beat new journalism and of underground comix. 2007 Bitch Winter 88/2 An auditory playground of glorps, sputters, and bric-a-brac instrumentation. Compounds General attributive (in sense A. 1), as bric-a-brac man, bric-a-brac shop, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling fancy goods or curios gaudy-shopa1627 toy shop1691 knick-knackatory1702 knackatory1709 bazaar1807 curiosity-shop1818 bric-a-brac shop1840 novelty store1874 novelty shop1893 odditorium1914 gift shop1918 curio-shop1920 society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > sellers of other specific things soaper?c1225 oilman1275 smear-monger1297 upholder1333 basket-seller?1518 broom-seller?1518 upholster1554 rod-woman1602 starchwoman1604 pin manc1680 colour seller1685 potato-woman1697 printseller1700 rag-seller1700 Greenwich barber1785 sandboy1821 iceman1834 umbrella man1851 fly-boy1861 snuff-boxera1871 pedlar1872 snake-boy1873 bric-a-brac man1876 tinwoman1884 resurrectionist1888 butch1891 paanwallah1955 1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. II. 267 The palace of Versailles has been turned into a bricabrac shop. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lxvii. 314 Haven't an affair in the world..except a quarrel with a bric-à-brac man. 1949 Illustr. London News 10 Dec. 916/3 He roamed about side-streets and soon became a familiar figure to bric-à-brac dealers who regularly found him what he wanted. 2018 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 30 June There are still a few independent cafés, record shops, crafters and bric-a-brac purveyors. Derivatives ˈbric-a-bracker n. colloquial (often humorous) now rare a merchant who deals in bric-a-brac; (also) a collector of bric-a-brac. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial > one who collects bric-a-bracker1876 1876 Art Jrnl. June 175/1 He is near to several enterprising bric-a-brackers possessing shops. 1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xx. 187 I am content to be a brick-a-bracker. 2001 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 22 Sept. (Late ed.) 9 Auction houses such as Gavan Hardy give bric-a-brackers the opportunity to fight it out gavel-side with serious collectors and specialist dealers. ˈbric-a-brackery n. (also bric-a-braquerie) items of bric-a-brac collectively; (also) the activity of collecting bric-a-brac; trade in bric-a-brac. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > bric-a-brac bric-a-brac1830 bric-a-brackery1858 1858 Money Bag No. 2. 75 He gave foolish prices for pictures and statues, and was insanely fond of all sorts of bricabraquerie. 1968 H. J. Hunt tr. H. de Balzac Cousin Pons vi. 61 This Rémonencq, who..had promoted himself to the status of dealer in curiosities, was..well aware of Pons's standing in bric-à-braquerie. 2002 Boston Irish Reporter 30 Apr. 10 The stained sweatshirts, the medals, the bits and pieces of desperate bric-a-brackery that is all that is left of the thousands who died. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1830
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