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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, http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0889-3012%28199804%290%3A35%3C48%3AA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
- :I am a child of modernism – ... As such I have inherited a distrust of the , 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 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 of folding hands—with dread.
- (rfv-sense) (obsolete) A bimbo.<ref name="EOD-etym&defs"/>
Etymology: First attested in American English<ref name="EOD-etym&defs">"http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=tchotchke+&searchmode=none tchotchke" in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Â November 2001 Douglas Harper</ref> in 1964<ref name="EOD-etym&defs"/>: From (Yidd.)<ref name="EOD-etym&defs"/> (term, sc=Hebr, Ö, tr=tshatshke, , trinket, lang=yi), from obsolete (term, czaczko, lang=pl); consider Russian ÑÑ(term, , tr=tsatska, lang=ru)<ref name="EOD-etym&defs"/>.
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