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TCHOTCHKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tchotchke mean? 

TCHOTCHKE (noun)
  The noun TCHOTCHKE has 2 senses:

1. (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional womanplay

2. (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinketplay

  Familiarity information: TCHOTCHKE used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TCHOTCHKE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

chachka; tchotchke; tchotchkeleh; tsatske; tshatshke

Hypernyms ("tchotchke" is a kind of...):

fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman (a young female)

Domain category:

Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)


Sense 2

Meaning:

(Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chachka; tchotchke; tsatske; tshatshke

Hypernyms ("tchotchke" is a kind of...):

collectable; collectible (things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique))

Domain category:

Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)


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