English
Alternative spellings
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chachka
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tsatske
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tshatshke
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Etymology
First attested in American English<ref name"EOD-etym&defs">�tchotchke� in the Online Etymology Dictionary, © November 2001 Douglas Harper</ref> in 1964<ref name"EOD-etym&defs"/>: From Yidd.<ref name"EOD-etym&defs"/> term|scHebr|�ש�ַ�שקע|trtshatshke||trinket|langyi, from obsolete Pl. term|czaczko|langpl; consider Russian �а�каterm||trtsatska|langru<ref name"EOD-etym&defs"/>.
Pronunciation
audio|en-us-tchotchke.ogg|Audio (US)
Noun
en-noun
- A small, decorative item or souvenir, usually of no particular value.<ref name="EOD-etym&defs"/>
#*1998 Apr, Mark Rakatansky, A/Partments, in Assemblage 35, page 58, 1
#*:I am a child of modernism – [...] As such I have inherited a distrust of the tchotchke, which I have still – [...]
#*1999 Aug 8, Jesse McKinley?, The Avant-Garde: Follow That Backpack, in The New York Times, page 5.16
#*:With limited cash and a thirst for uncommon sights, backpackers have pushed into challenging territory well before the big-money resorts or tchotchke merchants.
#*2006, Jack Sullivan, Hitchcock's Music, Yale University Press, page 244
#*:Once again Hitchcock overturned the convention that music must remain subliminally in the background of a film: [...] in its quiet moments, it roams grimly wherever it pleases, investing the most banal images—a toy, [...] a tchotchke of folding hands—with dread.
- rfv-sense obsolete A bimbo.<ref name="EOD-etym&defs"/>
See also
knickknack
trinket
References
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