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.
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
- 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: 牙簽/牙签 (ngaa4 cim1), 牙籤/牙签 (ngaa4 cim1), 牙签 (ngaa⁴cim¹)
- Mandarin: 牙簽/牙签 (zh) (yáqiān), 牙籤/牙签 (zh) (yáqiān), 牙签 (zh) (yáqiān)
- Min Nan: 齒戳仔/齿戳仔 (zh-min-nan), 齿戳仔 (khíthoká), 齒戳/齿戳, 齿戳 (khíthok)
- 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 (keisám)
- Hindi: दन्तखुदनी f (dantakhudnī), टूथपिक f (ṭūthpik), दांतखोदनी f (dāntkhodnī)
- Hungarian: fogpiszkáló (hu), fogvájó
- Indonesian: tusuk gigi (id)
- Irish: bior fiacla m
- Italian: stuzzicadenti (it) m
- Japanese: 楊枝 (ja) (ようじ, yōji), 楊子 (ようじ, yōji), 爪楊枝 (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
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- Lithuanian: krapštukas m
- Macedonian: чепкалка f (čepkalka)
- Malay: pencungkil gigi
- Maltese: tutpikk
- Maori: kapeniho
- Maranao: panisig
- 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
- 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)
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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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