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...knickknacks, gimcracks, gewgaws, whigmaleeries; we have wonderful choices for whatnots.
tchotchke (TCHOCH-keh), being Yiddish, suffers from the usual gimcrack transliteration, including (but not limited to) tsatske, tsatskele, and tchotchkele. Rosten (Joy of Yiddish) prefers tsatske (TSAHTS-keh). from Polish: tsatsko, "a toy" or "a beautiful, useless thing."
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"a beautiful, useless thing."
Kinda like Jennifer Lopez or Arnold Schwarzengger, ¿yes?
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I thought the second half of "bibliobibuli" was a play on
"bibulous" meaning addicted to alcohol.
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bill, I guess this (see eta's post) got lost amongst the gimcrackery on the mantle:
It's a combination of "biblio-" (Greek: comb. form of book) and a variant of "biblulous" (Latin: "Freely or readily drinking").
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Dear tsuwm: thanks for pointing that out.
Did anyone every tell you you are a bit of a shit?
You may recall that when I have noticed errors you made,
I send you a PM.
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Dr. Bill, I wouldn't so much call this an error as a "chopped liver/mantle" event, such as we all good-naturedly point out to each other with relative frequency on the Board. At least that's how I read it.
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>I wouldn't so much call this an error as a "chopped liver/mantle" event..
and this would be a double-decaf coffee and...; see my gimcrackery on the mantle comment. <VBG>
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Yes, that was a good use of "mantle," tsuwm. Let us remember that wwh is somewhat crotchety, and, if he lived in England, he'd have a hard time rhyming 'bit' with 'shite.'
Wouldn't you, Dr Bill?
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>You may recall that when I have noticed errors you made,
I send you a PM.
but for one *very notable exception, which was not even any of my doing.
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>Let us remember that wwh is somewhat crotchety,
In the same way that the Sun is somewhat warm and the cosmos somewhat large.
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