Notice the two Tch in the first and four kays in the second.
Any clues as to etymology of both?
Submitted by Melvyn Goodman (London - England)
The following quotes are from the Oxford English Dictionary and archived sources:<2017 "Dad's [[dad died]] tchotches are a bigger challenge to give away. He has awful taste in souvenirs. There's an oversize green wine glass that says 'Sexy Bitch.' I once asked why he had it in his room. 'Because I couldn't think of anyone to give it to.'"—The Week, 15 December [Excerpted from an essay that was originally published in Longreads.com.]
_________________________________<1977 "A . . . boutique, to the left of the entrance, stocked with a careful selection of New York's best tchotchkes. These include thirteen-inch-long matchbooks."—New Yorker (New York City, New York), 1 August, page 14/1>
<1987 "A bemused Ellen Barkin contemplates the 200-pound marlin on her wall, one of a school of aquatic tchotchkes that leap and creep about the actress' Greenwich Village loft."—The Washington Post (D.C.), 28 August>
<1997 "The tchotchkes are made from everyday objects like combs and forks, held together with plaster casts."—The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts), 18 November>
<2007 "Barely moved into her one room of artifacts, books and tchotchkes, already she needs a bigger place."—The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, Maryland), 19 February>
<2017 "I wandered over to the Jaffa Flea Market and tried my hand at bargaining for some tchotchkes to take home as souvenirs."—States News Service (Washington, D.C.), 7 November>