(ˌɛskəˈbɛtʃɪ ) noun. (in Mexican cookery) pickled vegetables such as onions, carrots, jalapeño peppers, and garlic, typically served with fish.

: knickknack, trinket. Carlene's furniture was garish and awful and every shelf or corner held tchotchkes and gewgaws and other tacky trinkets. Ingrid Law.

A tchotchke is some kind of trinket or bauble, like inexpensive jewelry or the prize you get in a cereal box. Less often, tchotchke is used to mean "pretty girl or woman." The word comes, via Yiddish, from a Slavic root, and over the years it's been spelled in numerous different ways.

(ˌbɑːləˈbʌstə, -ˈbɔs-) noun. informal. a capable, efficient housewife, esp. a traditional Jewish one, devoted to maintaining a well-run home.