tchotchke

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    (Yiddish) a mistress
    (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket

Word Origin

tchotchke (n.)
"tinket, gewgaw," also (transferred) "pretty girl," 1964, American English, from Yiddish, from a Slavic source (compare Russian tsatska).