different between tsatske vs tchotchke

English

Etymology

From Yiddish ??????? (tsatske, “trinket”), from Russian ?????? (cácka).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?ts?tsk?/

Noun

tsatske (plural tsatskes)

1. Alternative spelling of tchotchke
   • 1974: Georgia Dullea, The New York Times — 12^th of July edition, p31^?; quoted in:
   • 1980: Clarence L. Barnhart, Sol. Steinmetz, and Robert K. Barnhart, The Second Barnhart Dictionary of New English, p481

     “Décor doesn’t add to the glamour of a suit,” an owner pointed out. “You’re not buying the rugs or the lamps or the tsatskes.”

Synonyms

• chachka
• tshatshke

References

Anagrams

• stakest, taskset

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