tchotchke
Meanings
Plural: tchotchkes
Noun
- (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman
- (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket
- A small ornament of minor value; a knick-knack, a trinket.
- An attractive girl or woman.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish טשאַטשקע (tshatshke, “ornament; trinket; toy; (figurative) attractive girl or woman”), from a Slavic language and probably ultimately imitative of a baby’s utterances.
Slavic cognates
* Polish cacko (“toy; knick-knack, trinket; pretty thing”), from caca (“nice thing”), and czaczko (“(obsolete) toy; trinket; pretty thing”)
* Russian ца́цка (cácka, “(informal) knick-knack, trinket; (dated) toy”), from ца́ца (cáca, “toy; trinket; well-behaved child; nice person; conceited person”)
* Ukrainian ца́цка (cácka, “(dated) toy; ornament, trinket; conceited person; well-dressed person”), from ца́ца (cáca, “toy; well-behaved child; conceited person; attractive woman”)
Synonyms
angel, babe, bauble, beauty, belle, betty, bimbo, bit of crumpet, bomb, bombshell, bric-a-brac, chachka, cookie, cupcake, cutie, dimber mort, doll, enchantress, fandangle, fangle, femme fatale, fizgig, folderol, fox, gewgaw, goddess, golden girl, HB, hottie, houri, jelly, kickshaw, knick-knack, knockout, looker, lovely, mathom, odalisque, peng ting, piece of crumpet, pretty, stoater, stunna, stunner, tat, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, ten, trangam, trinket, tsatske, tshatshke, vixen, whim-wham
Scrabble Score: 23
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