giftlet

English

Etymology

From gift +‎ -let.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɪftlət/

Noun

giftlet (plural giftlets)

  1. A small gift.
    • 1976, Angela Carter, ‘My Father's House’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 19:
      There is […] a number of plastic dolls in blonde wigs and kilts brought back as giftlets for my now deceased aunt by cronies who tripped off to other parts of Scotland for wee holidays.
    • 2005, Peter Green, translating Catullus, Poems, p. 139:
      Yet the giftlets she offered the gods, the vows she pledged / with silent lips—these were not in vain, not unpleasing.
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