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Tchotchke

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1968, OED Evaluation: U.S. Colloquial

A trinket or gewgaw

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Because I collect dragon statues, and I have a lot of little chintzy ones from the dollar store that people see and go, "Oh you collect these, so I bought eight of them for you, they are a set, they cost eight dollars." So I have like these little- she calls them tchotchkys. That 's my sister's word for these things, cheap little pieces of junk that I like putting everywhere.
Cheap things