tchotchke
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First attested in American English[1] in 1964[1]: From Yiddish[1] טשאַטשקע (tshatshke, “trinket”), from obsolete Polish czaczko; consider Russian цацка (cácka)[1].
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tchotchke (plural tchotchkes)
- A small, decorative item or souvenir, usually of no particular value.[1]
- 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.
- 1998 Apr, Mark Rakatansky, A/Partments, in Assemblage 35, page 58, [1]
- (obsolete) A bimbo.[1]
