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English
Noun
trim-tram (plural trim-trams)
- (obsolete) a worthless trifle
c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:A trym tram for an horſe myll it were a nyſe thyng
Deyntes for dammoyſels, Chaffer far fet […]
- 1547, William Patten, The Expedition into Scotland, as published in 1895, Edward Arber, An English Garner, volume III, page 70:
- Our consciences, now, quite unclogged from the fear of his vain terriculaments and rattle-bladders; and from the fondness of his trimtrams and gugaws
1599, Nashe, “To His Readers, Hee Cares Not What They Be”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, , London: [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N L and C B , →OCLC:Head, body, taile and all of a redde Herring you ſhall haue of mee, if that will pleaſe you, or if that will not pleaſe you, ſtay till Eſter Terme, and then with the anſwere to the Trim Tram, I will make you laugh your hearts out.