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crinkum-crankum

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
crinkum-crankum /krɪŋkəmˈkraŋkəm/

▶noun archaic elaborate decoration or detail.

– origin C17: fanciful reduplication of crank1 or crank2.

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