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Word of the Day for Sunday, September 20, 2009tchotchke \CHOCH-kuh\, noun: A trinket; a knickknack. The rare tchotchke aside, our antiquing journeys mainly amounted to wishful foraging, in the spirit of a more roomy and prosperous someday we somehow never really articulated. Of course, you also have arcades, like Funland, and your typical tchotchke vendors, like Ryan's Gems and Junk. I'm going nuts with my mother's accumulation of tchotchkes -- it's bad enough she never parted with one she got as a gift -- but why did she have to buy more? Tchotchke is from Yiddish tshatshke, "trinket," ultimately of Slavic origin. It is also spelled tsatske. | |||||||||
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