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单词 tchotchke
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tchotchke

/ˈtʃɒtʃkə /
(also tsatske)
noun informal
1North American A small object that is decorative rather than strictly functional; a trinket: a pig mug and a dozen or so other porcine tchotchkes adorn his office...
  • The group staged golf tournaments and cruises and sold innumerable collectible tchotchkes - limited-edition wooden plaques, team pictures, 25th anniversary prepaid calling cards.
  • He has a huge collection of tchotchkes.
  • In return, he gets an eagle tchotchke for his knickknack shelf because ‘eagles have no borders.’
2US A pretty girl or woman: just look at my little tchotchke growing up...
  • Leo Rosten, author of The Joys of Yiddish, gives an alternate sense of tchotchke as meaning a desirable young girl, a "pretty young thing".

Origin

1960s: Yiddish.

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