What does Tsatske mean?

inexpensive showy trinket
Definitions of tsatske. (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket. synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tshatshke. type of: collectable, collectible.

What is a Chocki?

1A police station or jail. ‘The water body opposite the police chowki had a good mix of birds.

What is the Yiddish word for knick knacks?

A tchotchke (/ˈtʃɒtʃkə/ CHOTCH-kə) is a small bric-à-brac or miscellaneous item. The word has long been used by Jewish-Americans and in the regional speech of New York City and elsewhere. It is Yiddish in origin. They can also be sold as cheap souvenirs in tourist areas, which are sometimes called “tchotchke shops”.

Is tchotchke a Yiddish?

While many such words are of unknown origin, we know that tchotchke comes from the Yiddish tshatshke of the same meaning, and ultimately from a now-obsolete Polish word, czaczko. Tchotchke is a pretty popular word these days, but it wasn’t commonly used in English until the 1970s.

What does the word tshatshke mean in Yiddish?

tshatshke – (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman. chachka, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tsatske. Yiddish – a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script.

What do you call a young lady in Yiddish?

tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tsatske, tshatshke Yiddish – a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script fille, girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman – a young woman; “a young lady of 18”

Where did Shmuel Yosef tshatshke originate from?

References in periodicals archive ? Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970) first saw light as Shmuel Yosef Tshatshkes in Butshatsh, a substantial shtetl in Galicia, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire but formerly southern Poland.