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Thursday, August 24, 2006

word of the day

Aus irgendeinem Grund stoß ich in den letzten Tagen immer wieder auf das wundervolle Wort Tchotchke. Die meisten von euch werden es wahrscheinlich noch nie vorher gehört haben, aber das ging mir auch so. Urban Dictionary (eines meiner Lieblingswörterbücher) hat folgendes dazu zu sagen:
1. Tchotchke is from Yiddish tshatshke, trinket, ultimately of Slavic origin. It is also spelled tsatske.
2. Piece of crap that people at trade shows fight over, mostly pens and coffee mugs.
3. A cheap trinket.

example: I'm going nuts with my mother's accumulation of tchotchkes - it's bad enough she never parted with one she got as a gift - but why did she have to buy more?
Und Wikipedia meint:
Tchotchke (originally from Yiddish tshatshke (trinket), ultimately from a Slavic word for "toys" — Polish: cacka, Russian: цацки) are trinkets, small toys, knickknacks, or kitsch.
Bei LEO sucht man vergebens nach einer Übersetzung, dafür bietet dict.cc (auch zu empfehlen!) die schöne Übersetzung "Nippes" an. "Tand" gefällt mir auch gut. (Das Wort Nippes kommt laut Wikipedia übrigens vom Französischen nippes, 'Putzsachen', 'weibliche Zierwäsche'.)
Links: Tchotchke bei WorldWideWords