PONDER THIS! Tchotchke there, Tchotchkes Everywhere By Hazel Rosetta Smith
PONDER THIS! Tchotchke there, Tchotchkes Everywhere By Hazel Rosetta Smith Tchotchke is a popular Yiddish word heard in Jewish American communities. Its meaning is nondescript junk, a small, decorative object that’s not valuable and seldom considered precious. There are numerous other words that may be more familiar, such as knickknacks, doodads, whatnots, trinkets, and bric-a-brac.