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Definition of tchotchke in English: tchotchke(also tsatske) nounˈtʃɒtʃkəˈCHäCHkə informal 1North American A small object that is decorative rather than strictly functional; a trinket. 小玩意儿，小饰品 a pig mug and a dozen or so other porcine tchotchkes adorn his office Example sentencesExamples - He has a huge collection of tchotchkes.
- As I walk the halls, I nervously await one of the rattling tchotchkes to come crashing down onto the quaintly undulating creaky floorboards.
- Farhad Moshiri of Iran gilded a baroque cabinet filled with Buddhas, Mickey Mouse dolls, toy phones and other tchotchkes of global trade, all made precious by the application of gold leaf.
- Tools, parts, toys, instruments, tchotchkes - the weight of some new thing in my hand, often small, metallic and well machined, compels me to add it to my life.
- The economic malaise could stampede companies into emphasizing revenue generation, returning to the bad old days of proliferating tchotchkes that are inappropriate for the brand image.
- The group staged golf tournaments and cruises and sold innumerable collectible tchotchkes - limited-edition wooden plaques, team pictures, 25th anniversary prepaid calling cards.
- There's a reason that Will, who enjoys the flashy tchotchkes of his bachelorhood, chose to live the way that he did, and that's because it is much more exciting than settling down.
- After years of upping the stakes with larger booths, more lavish parties and fancy tchotchkes, some exhibitors are putting the brakes on wild spending.
- In return, he gets an eagle tchotchke for his knickknack shelf because ‘eagles have no borders.’
- The L-shaped dining room possesses a modern-man aesthetic too, what with its spaciousness, absence of tchotchkes, copper-sponged walls, pillow-lined banquettes and unclothed brown tables.
- Her strategy: Tickle her guests' fancy with tchotchkes.
- Any time you do an independent movie, the stylist always brings you thrift-shop clothes, the art director is always putting stupid little tchotchkes all over the place…
- Everything I care about is dismissed as a waste of time by most of world, or was, until recently: Science fiction, the Internet, blogging, gadgetry, vintage tchotchkes, Disney parks, etc.
- Tomorrow I have to help the attorney's assistant haul all the files back in and make sure as many books and tchotchkes as we can remember are back in their proper places.
- ‘It's okay to get confused,’ he says, noting that the word ‘craft’ also refers to handmade tchotchkes.
- Upstairs were decorative objects, documentary photographs, advertising posters, costumes, film clips and tchotchkes, interspersed occasionally with oil paintings.
- The last time you were in Las Vegas, you scooped up too many tchotchkes at Comdex, emptied your pockets at the slot machines, hunted for fossils.
- The clipped lines and metallic austerities of modern design couldn't resist the assaults of this charm offensive inspired by tchotchkes from Mexico, India, and the Southwest.
- And by a certain age, everyone is overloaded with tchotchkes.
- To the right stood a table whose drawer housed an assemblage of small bottles, mirrors and Christmas light bulbs, and whose top was covered with tchotchkes, such as an Eiffel Tower-shaped whiskey bottle.
2US A pretty girl or woman. 漂亮女子 just look at my little tchotchke growing up Example sentencesExamples - Leo Rosten, author of The Joys of Yiddish, gives an alternate sense of tchotchke as meaning a desirable young girl, a "pretty young thing".
Definition of tchotchke in US English: tchotchke(also tsatske) nounˈCHäCHkə informal 1North American A small object that is decorative rather than strictly functional; a trinket. 小玩意儿，小饰品 a pig mug and a dozen or so other porcine tchotchkes adorn his office Example sentencesExamples - The group staged golf tournaments and cruises and sold innumerable collectible tchotchkes - limited-edition wooden plaques, team pictures, 25th anniversary prepaid calling cards.
- Tomorrow I have to help the attorney's assistant haul all the files back in and make sure as many books and tchotchkes as we can remember are back in their proper places.
- The L-shaped dining room possesses a modern-man aesthetic too, what with its spaciousness, absence of tchotchkes, copper-sponged walls, pillow-lined banquettes and unclothed brown tables.
- The last time you were in Las Vegas, you scooped up too many tchotchkes at Comdex, emptied your pockets at the slot machines, hunted for fossils.
- Farhad Moshiri of Iran gilded a baroque cabinet filled with Buddhas, Mickey Mouse dolls, toy phones and other tchotchkes of global trade, all made precious by the application of gold leaf.
- Upstairs were decorative objects, documentary photographs, advertising posters, costumes, film clips and tchotchkes, interspersed occasionally with oil paintings.
- ‘It's okay to get confused,’ he says, noting that the word ‘craft’ also refers to handmade tchotchkes.
- As I walk the halls, I nervously await one of the rattling tchotchkes to come crashing down onto the quaintly undulating creaky floorboards.
- Her strategy: Tickle her guests' fancy with tchotchkes.
- Any time you do an independent movie, the stylist always brings you thrift-shop clothes, the art director is always putting stupid little tchotchkes all over the place…
- The clipped lines and metallic austerities of modern design couldn't resist the assaults of this charm offensive inspired by tchotchkes from Mexico, India, and the Southwest.
- After years of upping the stakes with larger booths, more lavish parties and fancy tchotchkes, some exhibitors are putting the brakes on wild spending.
- To the right stood a table whose drawer housed an assemblage of small bottles, mirrors and Christmas light bulbs, and whose top was covered with tchotchkes, such as an Eiffel Tower-shaped whiskey bottle.
- There's a reason that Will, who enjoys the flashy tchotchkes of his bachelorhood, chose to live the way that he did, and that's because it is much more exciting than settling down.
- In return, he gets an eagle tchotchke for his knickknack shelf because ‘eagles have no borders.’
- Everything I care about is dismissed as a waste of time by most of world, or was, until recently: Science fiction, the Internet, blogging, gadgetry, vintage tchotchkes, Disney parks, etc.
- He has a huge collection of tchotchkes.
- Tools, parts, toys, instruments, tchotchkes - the weight of some new thing in my hand, often small, metallic and well machined, compels me to add it to my life.
- And by a certain age, everyone is overloaded with tchotchkes.
- The economic malaise could stampede companies into emphasizing revenue generation, returning to the bad old days of proliferating tchotchkes that are inappropriate for the brand image.
2US A pretty girl or woman. 漂亮女子 just look at my little tchotchke growing up Example sentencesExamples - Leo Rosten, author of The Joys of Yiddish, gives an alternate sense of tchotchke as meaning a desirable young girl, a "pretty young thing".
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