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Tchotchke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Word of the Day - Learn one new word everyday on Dictionary.com ... Done, made, or gotten by stealth. ... The monitoring is not surreptitious; on the contrary, the defendant and his or her attorney are required to be given notice of the government's listening activities.
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Tchotchke - Definition of Tchotchke at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Tchotchke. Look it up now! ... Copy & paste this link to your blog or website to reference this page ... Use tchotchke in a Sentence...
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; a.k.a. knickknacks -or- swag -or- schwag ... Promotional items emblazoned with company logos, from the traditional type of giveaway (baseball cap, T-shirt, tote bag, or mouse pad) down to really weird junk (barf ... These items are usually given away in the thousands at shows and are either given in turn to other people,
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I'm going nuts with my mother's accumulation of tchotchkes - it's bad enough she never parted with one she got as a gift - but why did she have to buy more? --Quoted in "Artifacts of Life," Newsday, December 9, 1996...
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Friday Football Foodie – Buffalo Chicken Meatballs and Black Russians ... Buffalo Chicken Meatballs. Cheese free if you skip the dipping portion, you goddamn hippie. ... Black and Gold Tchotchkes...
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Friday Football Foodie: Caramelized Onion with Apple Tarts and Blue Cheese with Pear Squares, Lost Abby Beers ... There is always that "one person" at a party who eyes food like this with caution. Lie to them and tell them it's pizza. ... It has been a hard, hard, hard month. The Steelers have lost three — three! — in a...
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A questioner asks for the origin of 'tchotchke'. ... invites weary attendees loaded with product literature and promotional tchotchkes to rest on comfortable chairs positioned in front of software demonstrations’. Could you tell me the origin of this word and can I expect to see it any time soon in the Oxford Dictionary?
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