English
Etymology
From tooth + pick.
Pronunciation
Noun
toothpick (plural toothpicks)
- A small, usually wooden, stick, often pointed at both ends, for removing food residue from between the teeth.
- (slang, derogatory) A very thin individual.
- (slang, derogatory) A small or slender penis.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
stick for removing food residue from the area between the teeth
- Arabic: عُود تَخْلِيل أَسْنَان m (ʕūd taḵlīl ʔasnān), خِلَال m (ḵilāl)
- Armenian: ատամնափորիչ (hy) (atamnapʻoričʻ)
- Azerbaijani: dişçöpü, dişqurdalayan
- South Azerbaijani: دیش قوردالیان
- Basque: zotz (eu), txotx
- Belarusian: зубачы́стка f (zubačýstka)
- Bulgarian: кле́чка (bg) f (kléčka)
- Burmese: သွားကြားထိုးတံ (my) (swa:kra:htui:tam)
- Catalan: escuradents (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 牙籤 / 牙签 (ngaa4 cim1)
- Hokkien: 齒戳仔 / 齿戳仔 (zh-min-nan) (khí-thok-á), 齒戳 / 齿戳 (khí-thok)
- Mandarin: 牙籤 / 牙签 (zh) (yáqiān)
- Czech: párátko (cs) n
- Danish: tandstikker (da) c
- Dutch: tandenstoker (nl) m
- Estonian: hambaork (et)
- Finnish: hammastikku (fi)
- French: cure-dent (fr) m
- Georgian: კბილსაჩიჩქნი (ḳbilsačičkni)
- German: Zahnstocher (de) m
- Greek: οδοντογλυφίδα (el) f (odontoglyfída)
- Hebrew: קֵיסָם (he) m (kēsám)
- Hindi: दन्तखुदनी f (dantakhudnī), टूथपिक f (ṭūthpik), दांतखोदनी f (dāntkhodnī)
- Hungarian: fogpiszkáló (hu), fogvájó (hu)
- Indonesian: tusuk gigi (id)
- Irish: bior fiacla m
- Italian: stuzzicadenti (it) m, stecchino (it) m
- Japanese: 楊枝 (ja) (ようじ, yōji), 楊子 (ようじ, yōji), 爪楊枝 (ja) (つまようじ, tsumayōji)
- Kalmyk: шигшг (şigşg), шигшлүр (şigşlür)
- Kanakanabu: sipaketinga
- Kazakh: тазартқыш (tazartqyş), тіс ысқыш (tıs ysqyş)
- Khmer: ឈើចាក់ធ្មេញ (chəə cak thmɨñ), ស្ទន់ (km) (stŭən)
- Korean: 이쑤시개 (ko) (issusigae)
- Kyrgyz: тиш чукугуч (tiş cukuguc)
- Lao: ໄມ້ຈີ້ມແຂ້ວ (mai chīm khǣu)
- Latin: dentiscalpium n
- Latvian: zobu bakstāmais m
- Lithuanian: krapštukas m
- Macedonian: чепкалка f (čepkalka)
- Malay: pencungkil gigi
- Maltese: tutpikk
- Maori: kapeniho
- Maranao: panisig
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: шүдний чигчлүүр (šüdnii čigčlüür)
- Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠳᠦᠨ ᠦ
ᠴᠢᠭᠴᠢᠯᠡᠭᠦᠷ (sidün-ü čiɣčilegür)
- Navajo: awókʼiz bee naʼatsií
- Norman: êpinnoque-dents m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tannpirker m, tannstikker m
- Nynorsk: tannpirkar m, tannstikkar m
- Old English: tōþgār m, tōþsticca m
- Ottoman Turkish: خلال (hilâl)
- Pannonian Rusyn: зубодлобка f (zubodlobka)
- Persian: خلال دندان (fa) (xelâl-e dandân), خلال (fa) (xelâl)
- Polish: wykałaczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: palito (pt) m, palito de dentes (pt) m, palito de dente m
- Romanian: scobitoare (ro) f
- Russian: зубочи́стка (ru) f (zubočístka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ча̏чкалица f
- Roman: čȁčkalica (sh) f
- Slovak: špáradlo n
- Slovene: zobotrebec m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: zubny šparack m
- Spanish: palillo (es) m, escarbadientes (es) m, mondadientes (es) m, limpiadientes m
- Swahili: kichokonoo, kimbaka
- Swedish: tandpetare (sv) c, tandsticka c
- Tagalog: panghininga, palito, pantinga
- Tajik: дандонковак (dandonkovak), дандонхилол (dandonxilol)
- Thai: ไม้จิ้มฟัน (th) (mái-jîm-fan)
- Turkish: kürdan (tr)
- Ukrainian: зубочи́стка (uk) f (zubočýstka)
- Uyghur: چىش كوچىلىغۇچ (chish kochilighuch)
- Uzbek: tishkavlagich, tish kavlagich
- Vietnamese: tăm (vi), tăm xỉa răng
- Welsh: deintbig m
- Yiddish: ציינשטעכער m (tseynshtekher)
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Further reading
toothpick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
toothpick (third-person singular simple present toothpicks, present participle toothpicking, simple past and past participle toothpicked)
- (transitive) To spear food on a toothpick.
- (transitive) To transfer a sample of bacteria, etc. by means of a toothpick.
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