Tchotchke

The word may also refer to free promotional items dispensed at trade shows, conventions, and similar commercial events.

They can also be sold as cheap souvenirs in tourist areas, which are sometimes called "tchotchke shops".

A wide variety of spellings exist for the English usage of the term, such as tchatchke, tshotshke, tshatshke, tchachke, tchotchka, tchatchka, chachke, tsotchke, chotski, and chochke; the standard Yiddish transliteration is tsatske or tshatshke.

Tchotchke usually references trinkets, while tsatskele is more likely to mean a young girl or woman who uses her charms to reach her goals.

[9] The word tchotchke derives from a Slavic word for "trinket" (Ukrainian: цяцька, romanized: tsjats'ka [ˈtsʲɑtsʲkɐ] ⓘ; Polish: cacko [ˈtsatskɔ] ⓘ, plural cacka; Slovak: čačka[10] [ˈtʂatʂka]; Belarusian: цацка [ˈtsatska] ⓘ; Russian: цацка, romanized: tsatska Russian pronunciation: [ˈtsatska]), adapted to Yiddish singular טשאַטשקע tshatshke.