Tsatske (1949)

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    L'CHAYIM!--JEWISH WIT AND HUMOR GATHERED AND EDITED  BY IMMANUEL
OLSVANGER (1949) has a nice Yiddish-English glossary on pages 161-179.  Pg.
177, col. 1:

_tsatske_, p. ornament, toy
(p=Polish--ed.)

    The book is entirely in Yiddish, but the footnotes, glossary, and notes
are in English.  Pg. 6: Most of the stories in this book were originally
published by the author, with a diiferent transliteration, in _Rosinkes mit
Mandlen_, Verlag der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft fur Volkskunde, Basle, 1921
(2nd ed., 1931), and in _Reyte Pomeranzen_, Schocken Verlag, Berlin, 1935.
    The story "Tsapichis" starts on page 39.  Pg. 41:

     Af'n gas flegt er zich shpiln mit tsatskelach(20), un flegt zich shpiln
af a fayfke, tsi af a bromeyzer(21), un in shtub flegt er lernen mit'n tatn.

(20) toys.