We called them knickknacks...
My mom had a small collection of religious ornaments and souvenirs from various trips. She kept them on a mini-shelf unit in her place of business and one at home.It wasn't until I got into furniture manufacturing where I heard the Jewish equivalent of knickknack that sounded like 'choch-ka' or 'choch-kee'
Designers, especially ones from New York used that work liberally. They told me it was a Yiddish word. Since the word was only spoken to me, I didn't have a clue how it was spelled.
Tonight, I was reading a news article and saw the word tchotchke and I tried to pronounce it with a 'T'
Puzzled about the word, I cut & pasted into dictionary.com to see it's chotch-ke (or alternately chahch-kuh)
Those are the things my parents called knickknacks. Mystery solved.
Yeah, these things:
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Ill leave it at that