Pronounced: LOOT-string
Notes: An interesting word; I’ve not heard it before
Yesterday’s word
The word tchotchke means “knickknack; trinket”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1960s
Background / Comments
Our word is an Americanism; it came from the Yiddish word tshatshke, which came from an obsolete Polish word czaczko (knickknack). Our word joins several other words meaning “nondescript junk”.
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