different between bimbo vs tchotchke

English

Etymology

From Italian bimbo (“a child, a male baby”), variant of bambino (“child”). Originated in Italian American theater, attested 1919, as “stupid, inconsequential man”, by 1920 developed sense of “floozie, attractive and stupid woman”. Popularized in 1920s by Jack Conway of entertainment magazine Variety, who also popularized baloney (“nonsense”) and palooka (“large stupid man”). Revived in popularity in 1980s US political sex scandals.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?mb??/
• (US) enPR: b?m'b?, IPA^(key): /?b?mbo?/
• Rhymes: -?mb??

Noun

bimbo (plural bimbos or bimboes)

1. (derogatory, slang) A physically attractive woman who lacks intelligence.

   Synonyms: airhead, bimbette, dumb blonde, floozie

   • P. J. O’Rourke

     A bimbo is a woman who is not pretty enough to be a model, not smart enough to be an actress, and not nice enough to be a poisonous snake.

   • 10 May 2004, The New Yorker:

     Fey […] makes hay with the thought processes of a purebred bimbo

2. (derogatory, slang) A stupid or foolish person.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Words from Variety

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English bimbo, from Italian bimbo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?m.bo?/
• Hyphenation: bim?bo

Noun

bimbo f (plural bimbo's, diminutive bimbootje n)

1. (derogatory) bimbo (unintelligent floozie)

Italian

Etymology

Variant of bambino (“child”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bim.bo/
• Rhymes: -imbo

Noun

bimbo m (plural bimbi, feminine bimba)

1. child, baby (male)

Descendants

• ? English: bimbo

Anagrams

• bombi

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English bimbo, from Italian.

Noun

bimbo m (definite singular bimboen, indefinite plural bimboer, definite plural bimboene)

1. (derogatory) bimbo

References

• “bimbo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English bimbo, from Italian.

Noun

bimbo m (definite singular bimboen, indefinite plural bimboar, definite plural bimboane)

1. (derogatory) bimbo

References

• “bimbo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Alternative forms

• tsatske, chotchke, chachka, tshatshke, chatchka, chatchke

Etymology

First attested in American English in 1964, from Yiddish ????????? (tshatshke, “trinket”), from Polish cacko; compare Russian ?????? (cácka).

Pronunciation

Noun

tchotchke (plural tchotchkes)

1. (Canada, US) A trinket.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trinket

   • 1998 Apr, Mark Rakatansky, A/Partments, in Assemblage 35, page 58, [1]

     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.
2. (Canada, US, dated) An attractive woman or girl.

   Synonym: bimbo

See also

• schwag

Further reading

• “tchotchke”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

References