joystick

English

Etymology

From joy +‎ stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an airplane. Its relation to the word joy is unclear.

Pronunciation

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Noun

joystick (plural joysticks)

1. A mechanical device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer or other equipment.
   • 1989, Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)

     If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important.

2. (slang) A penis.

Translations

mechanical control device

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 控制桿 (zh), 控制杆 (kòngzhìgǎn), 操縱桿 (zh), 操纵杆 (zh) (cāozònggǎn)

• Czech: joystick m
• Dutch: bedieningshendel m, stuurknuppel (nl), joystick (nl)
• Finnish: sauvaohjain, (informal) ilotikku, joystick
• French: manche (fr) m, joystick (fr) m, manche à balai (fr) m
• Georgian: ჯოისტიკი (ǯoisṭiḳi), მართვის სახელური (martvis saxeluri)
• German: Steuerknüppel m, Joystick (de) m
• Greek: πηδάλιο (el) n (pidálio)
• Hungarian: botkormány
• Icelandic: stýripinni m, (rare) stýristautur m, (rare) leikvölur m

• Indonesian: tuas kendali
• Italian: barra di comando f
• Japanese: ジョイスティック (joisutikku)
• Korean: 조이스틱 (joiseutik)
• Malay: kayu ria, kayu bedik
• Polish: dżojstik m
• Portuguese: manche (pt) m
• Russian: джо́йстик (ru) m (džójstik)
• Serbo-Croatian: džojstik (sh) m
• Spanish: palanca de mando f
• Swedish: (computers) joystick (sv) c, styrspak c

Verb

joystick (third-person singular simple present joysticks, present participle joysticking, simple past and past participle joysticked)

1. (rare) To manoeuvre by means of a joystick.
   • 2006, Sid Davis, Home makeovers that sell

     Marketing your home isn't as difficult as joysticking a Mars rover through a crater, despite what many people believe.

   • 2007, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico G Sorrenti, Tomoichi Takahashi, RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X

     Therefore, part of the errors in the localization results is due to the problem of joysticking the robot exactly onto the marked positions.

   • 2007, Gaurav Suhas Sukhatme, Stefan Schaal, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox, Robotics: Science and Systems II

     It can run in autonomous mode or be manually joysticked using a radio controller.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English joystick.

Noun

joystick m (invariable)

1. joystick (device)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoisˈtiɡ/, [t͡ʃoi̯sˈt̪iɣ]

Etymology

Borrowing from English joystick.

Noun

joystick m (plural joysticks)

1. joystick