Quote Originally Posted by Valda View Post
Does it intend to make the word sound cuter, or what?

PS.

Also, I asked a woman today near to my workplace что вы ищите?
She answered смотрушка...but then I asked my russian friend what it means and he told me that I'm inventing words or misheard...any chance someone recognizes what it means or did I really mishear?

there's no such word in Russian, so i think you misheard

suffix -ка is a nouns suffix therefore it couldn't be appended to the verb смотрю even hypothetically

if i was to guess what she really said it could be смотрю что... (pronounced смотрю што... which is close to смотрушка) still sounds a bit off as the idea is incomplete but more likely than смотрушка, which sounds funny

a phrase "смотрю! что!" can sound rude or irritated if it's a response to the question что? which you asked, so it could be that, if she said it with matching intonation where there's a short pause between the words, in which case что! is mocking your question and is supposed to mean "why are you asking, don't you see?"


http://masterrussian.com/nounsandcases/suffixes.htm