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To: Mia T

What's a chachka? Never heard that word before.


9 posted on 05/02/2006 7:22:32 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

It's a Yiddish word for "knick-knack"

Spelled in a variety of ways.


12 posted on 05/02/2006 7:25:10 AM PDT by Maceman (Fake but accurate, and now double-sourced)
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To: GOP_Party_Animal
What's a chachka? Never heard that word before.

It’s the same thing as a tchotchke.

14 posted on 05/02/2006 7:28:42 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

A cheap, showy trinket. From the Yiddish.


15 posted on 05/02/2006 7:29:33 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

A cheap, showy trinket. From the Yiddish.


16 posted on 05/02/2006 7:29:33 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

Any nik-nak, usually cheap and tacky........clintons comes to mind.........so clinton = chachka


22 posted on 05/02/2006 7:39:36 AM PDT by yoe (Aim low boys, they're riding Burros.........................)
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