köken: Apparently from à bricq et à bracq (“at random; haphazardly”); bricq and bracq are expressive onomatopoeias of obscure origin; possibly from Germanic. Compare bricolage. First attested in the c. 1500s.
items that are useless or without value, junk, rubbish · a person who is useless or without value, trash
köken: Compound of がら (gara), from がらがら (garagara), an onomatopoeia for the sound of objects bumping against each other + くた (kuta), perhaps a contraction of 芥 (akuta, “trash, rubbish”) or related to verb 朽つ (kutsu, “to rot”, Classical and Old Japanese form of modern 朽ちる (kuchiru, “to rot”)). Compare other terms containing this くた (kuta) element, such as くたくた (kutakuta, “broken down, worn out”), 草臥れる…
From German Tingeltangel, originally Berlin dialect for café-chantant, imitative of the music played there. Attested since 1883. Cognate of Finnish tingeltangeli. Compare dingeldangel, dingla, English tingle-tangle.