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chotch⋅ke

  [chahch-kuh]
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–noun Slang.
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tchotch⋅ke

  [chahch-kuh]
–noun Slang.
an inexpensive souvenir, trinket, or ornament.
Also, chotchke.

Origin:
1965–70, Americanism; < Yiddish tshatshke < Pol czaczko bibelot, knickknack (now obs.; cf. mod. cacko with same sense, orig. dial.); of expressive orig.
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tchotchke

and chotchke
  1. n.
    a trinket or ornament. (From Yiddish.) : Her whole house is filled with tchotchkes and old photographs.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

tchotchke 
"tinket, gewgaw," also (transf.) "pretty girl," 1964, Amer.Eng., from Yiddish, from a Slavic source (cf. Rus. tsatska).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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