toothpick

English

Photograph of a container full of wooden toothpicks.

Etymology

From tooth +‎ pick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuːθ.pɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

toothpick (plural toothpicks)

1. A small, usually wooden, stick, often pointed at both ends, for removing food residue from between the teeth.
2. (slang, derogatory) A very thin individual.
3. (slang, derogatory) A small or slender penis.

Synonyms

• dentiscalp, picktooth (obsolete)

Derived terms

• Arkansas toothpick
• HE-double-toothpicks
• leaning toothpick syndrome
• Missouri toothpick
• Texas toothpick
• toothpicker
• toothpicklike
• toothpickweed (Visnaga daucoides, syn. Ammi visnaga)

 

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)
• 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)
• Persian: خلال دندان (fa) (xelâl-e dandân), خلال (fa) (xelâl)
• Polish: wykałaczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: palito de dentes (pt) m, palito de dente
• 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
• Swahili: kichokonoo, kimbaka
• Swedish: tandpetare (sv) c, tandsticka c
• Tagalog: panghininga, palito, pantinga
• Tajik: дандонковак (dandonkovak), дандонхилол (dandonxilol)
• Thai: ไม้จิ้มฟัน (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)

Further reading

toothpick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

toothpick (third-person singular simple present toothpicks, present participle toothpicking, simple past and past participle toothpicked)

1. (transitive) To spear food on a toothpick.
2. (transitive) To transfer a sample of bacteria, etc. by means of a toothpick.

Anagrams

• picktooth