clothes peg

See also: clothespeg and clothes-peg

English

Clothes pegs: left, simple one-piece design; right, a clip design with a spring.

Alternative forms

• clothes-peg, clothespeg

Noun

clothes peg (plural clothes pegs)

1. (British, Australia, New Zealand) An object (usually made of wood or plastic) used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline so that it (the laundry) can dry.

Synonyms

• clothespin

Translations

an object used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline

• Arabic: مِشْبَك مَلَابِس m (mišbak malābis)
• Armenian: լվացքի ամրակ (lvacʻkʻi amrak)
• Azerbaijani: şpilka, ipəzor (neologism)
• Belarusian: прышчэ́пка f (pryščépka)
• Bulgarian: щи́пка (bg) f (štípka)
• Catalan: agulla d'estendre (ca) f, gafa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衣夾／衣夹 (zh) (yījiā)

• Cree: ᐲᓈᐦᑎᒄ (piinaahtikw)
• Crimean Tatar: qısqıs
• Czech: kolíček na prádlo m
• Danish: tøjklemme (da)
• Dutch: wasknijper (nl) m, wasspeld (nl) f (Flanders)
• Estonian: pesupulk (et)
• Faroese: klemma f, toyklemma f
• Finnish: pyykkipoika (fi)
• French: pince à linge (fr) f, épingle à linge (fr) f
• Georgian: მომჭერი (momč̣eri), დამჭერი (damč̣eri)
• German: Wäscheklammer (de) f; Kluppe (de) f (Austria)
• Greek: μανταλάκι (el) n (mantaláki)
• Hungarian: ruhaszárító csipesz
• Icelandic: þvottaklemma f
• Irish: pionna éadaigh m
• Italian: molletta (it) f, molletta da bucato f
• Japanese: 洗濯挟み (ja) (せんたくばさみ, sentakubasami)
• Kazakh: кірқыстырғыш (kırqystyrğyş)
• Khmer: តម្បៀតខោអាវ (tɑmbiət khao ʼaaw)
• Korean: 빨래집게 (ppallaejipge)
• Macedonian: шти́пка f (štípka)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хувцасны хавчаар (xuvcasny xavčaar)

• Norman: êpîle à lînge f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klesklype m or f

• Persian: گیره لباس (fa) (gire-ye lebâs), گیره رخت (gire-ye raxt), قیدک کالا (qaydak-e kâlâ) (Dari)
• Polish: klamerka (pl) f, spinacz (pl) m, żabka (pl) f
• Portuguese: prendedor de roupa m (Brazil), pregador (pt) m (Brazil), grampo de roupa m (Brazil), mola (pt) f (Portugal), prisão (pt) f (Madeira)
• Russian: прище́пка (ru) f (priščépka)
• Scottish Gaelic: cnag-aodaich f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: штипаљка f

  Roman: štipaljka (sh) f

• Spanish: pinza de tender f, pinza (es) f, (Argentina) broche (es) m
• Swedish: klädnypa (sv) c, tvättklämma (sv) c
• Tajik: чангак (tg) (čangak)
• Thai: ไม้หนีบผ้า (máai-nìip-pâa)
• Turkish: mandal (tr)
• Ukrainian: прищі́пка f (pryščípka)
• Uzbek: qisqich (uz)
• Venetian: mojeca (vec) f