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What is this thing called?

Asked by lakenick73 (4points) November 29th, 2013

Okay, so my GF always picks up these little souvenir things whenever she goes places, and I want to get one for her for Christmas, but I have no clue what they are called! It is little, and usually an odd shaped animal or something similar, like a giraffe for example, and they look like a bobble head sort of. What are these called?

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syz's avatar

Are they hand carved like netsuke or Zuni fetish carvings, or mass produced like bobbleheads? What are they made of? Are they collectables? Can you post a picture?

El_Cadejo's avatar

Are you talking about these ?

dxs's avatar

^Those are the first things I thought of. I have a few of them myself.

syz's avatar

Ah, I forgot about those, @uberbatman .

stanleybmanly's avatar

One look and “CHOTSKIES” springs to mind.

dxs's avatar

@stanleybmanly Do you mean Tchotchke? It’s such a fun word!

stanleybmanly's avatar

@dxs. There are at least 6 variations on the spelling. At least the definition: worthless (yet treasured) crap is consistent with all spellings

SadieMartinPaul's avatar

“Tchotchke” (or “chotchkie,” “chotski,” or any other version) is a transliterated word. Yiddish is a Germanic language that’s written with the Hebrew alphabet. When the word gets converted to English, all sorts of fun spellings pop up.

dxs's avatar

Dzchawhchchiegh

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