tchotchke
English
Etymology
First attested in American English in 1964, from Yiddish טשאַטשקע (tshatshke, “trinket”), from obsolete Polish czaczko; compare Russian цацка (cácka)[1].
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
tchotchke (plural tchotchkes)
- A trinket.[1]
- 1998 Apr, Mark Rakatansky, A/Partments, in Assemblage 35, page 58,
- 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,
- (obsolete) A bimbo.[1]
Synonyms
- (trinket): See also: Thesaurus:trinket
See also
References
- “tchotchke” in the Online Etymology Dictionary (November 2001) of Douglas Harper
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.