tchotchke
Noun
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Noun
tchotchke (plural tchotchkes)
- (North American) A trinket.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:trinket
- 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.
- (North American, dated) An attractive woman or girl.
- Synonyms: bimbo
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