paperweight

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English

Etymology

paper + weight

Noun

paperweight (plural paperweights)

1. A small, decorative, somewhat weighty (and now, highly collectable) object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away.
2. Any object for this purpose.

   John used his coffee mug as a paperweight.

3. (slang) An otherwise useless piece of equipment.

Translations

small, decorative, somewhat weighty object

• Catalan: petjapapers (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鎮紙 (cmn), 镇纸 (cmn) (zhènzhǐ), 紙鎮 (cmn), 纸镇 (cmn) (zhǐzhèn), 書鎮 (cmn), 书镇 (cmn) (shūzhèn), 紙壓 (cmn), 纸压 (cmn) (zhǐyā)

• Czech: těžítko (cs) n
• Finnish: paperipaino (fi)
• French: presse-papiers (fr) m, presse-papier (fr) m
• Galician: calcapapeis (gl) m

• German: Briefbeschwerer (de) m
• Greek: πρες παπιέ (el) (pres papjé) n 
• Japanese: 文鎮 (ja) (ぶんちん, bunchin), 卦算 (ja) (けいさん, keisan)
• Jèrriais: paids à papi m
• Portuguese: pisa-papéis (pt) m
• Russian: пресс-папье (ru) (press-papʹjé) n  (indeclinable)
• Spanish: pisapapeles (es) m

any object for this purpose

• Czech: těžítko (cs) n
• Finnish: paperipaino (fi)
• French: presse-papiers (fr) m

• German: Briefbeschwerer (de) m
• Jèrriais: paids à papi m
• Russian: пресс-папье (ru) (press-papʹjé) n  (indeclinable)

slang: useless object

• Finnish: verkonpaino (fi)