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Knickknack vs Tchotchke - What's the difference?

knickknack | tchotchke |

As nouns the difference between knickknack and tchotchke

is that knickknack is an alternative spelling of lang=en while tchotchke is a small, decorative item or souvenir, usually of no particular value.

knickknack

English

Noun

(en noun)

    • tchotchke

    English

    Alternative forms

    * tsatske, chotchke, chachka, tshatshke

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, decorative item or souvenir, usually of no particular value.
  • * 1998 Apr, Mark Rakatansky, A/Partments'', in ''Assemblage 35, page 58, [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0889-3012%28199804%290%3A35%3C48%3AA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T]
    • I am a child of modernism – [...] As such I have inherited a distrust of the tchotchke , which I have still – [...]
  • * 1999 Aug 8, Jesse McKinley, The Avant-Garde: Follow That Backpack'', in ''The New York Times , page 5.16
    • With limited cash and a thirst for uncommon sights, backpackers have pushed into challenging territory well before the big-money resorts or tchotchke merchants.
  • * 2006 , Jack Sullivan, Hitchcock's Music , Yale University Press, page 244
    • Once again Hitchcock overturned the convention that music must remain subliminally in the background of a film: [...] in its quiet moments, it roams grimly wherever it pleases, investing the most banal images—a toy, [...] a tchotchke of folding hands—with dread.
  • (obsolete) A bimbo.

    • Synonyms

    * (small ornament) See also:

    See also

    * schwag

    References