(1) Leo Rosten, author of The Joys of Yiddish, gives an alternate sense of tchotchke as meaning a desirable young girl, a "pretty young thing".(2) just look at my little tchotchke growing up(3) In return, he gets an eagle tchotchke for his knickknack shelf because ‘eagles have no borders.’(4) 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.(5) 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.(6) The group staged golf tournaments and cruises and sold innumerable collectible tchotchkes - limited-edition wooden plaques, team pictures, 25th anniversary prepaid calling cards.(7) After years of upping the stakes with larger booths, more lavish parties and fancy tchotchkes , some exhibitors are putting the brakes on wild spending.(8) 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.(9) 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.(10) 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.(11) ‘It's okay to get confused,’ he says, noting that the word ‘craft’ also refers to handmade tchotchkes .(12) 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.(13) Upstairs were decorative objects, documentary photographs, advertising posters, costumes, film clips and tchotchkes , interspersed occasionally with oil paintings.(14) 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.(15) And by a certain age, everyone is overloaded with tchotchkes .(16) As I walk the halls, I nervously await one of the rattling tchotchkes to come crashing down onto the quaintly undulating creaky floorboards.
