toothpick

English

Photograph of a container full of wooden toothpicks.

Etymology

From tooth +‎ pick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuːθ.pɪk/

Noun

toothpick (plural toothpicks)

1. A small, usually wooden, stick, often pointed at both ends, for removing food residue from between the teeth.

Synonyms

• dentiscalp, picktooth (obsolete)

Derived terms

Terms derived from toothpick

• HE-double-toothpicks
• Missouri toothpick
• Texas toothpick

• toothpicker
• toothpicklike

Translations

stick for removing food residue from the area between the teeth

• Arabic: عود تخليل أسنان‎‎
• Armenian: ատամնափորիչ (hy) (atamnapʿoričʿ)
• Basque: zotz (eu), txotx
• Belarusian: зубачы́стка f (zubačýstka)
• Bulgarian: кле́чка (bg) f (kléčka)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 牙簽, 牙籤, 牙签 (ngaa⁴cim¹)

  Mandarin: 牙簽 (zh), 牙籤 (zh), 牙签 (zh) (yáqiān)

  Min Nan: 齒戳仔 (zh-min-nan), 齿戳仔 (khíthoká), 齒戳, 齿戳 (khíthok)

• Czech: párátko (cs) n
• Dutch: tandenstoker (nl) m
• 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)
• Irish: bior fiacla m
• Italian: stuzzicadenti (it) m
• Japanese: 楊枝 (ようじ, yōji), 楊子 (ようじ, yōji)
• Khmer: ឈើចាក់ធ្មេញ (cʰəə cak tmɨɲ)
• Korean: 이쑤시개 (ko) (issusigae)
• Lao: ໄມ້ຈີ້ມແຂ້ວ (mai chīm khǣu)
• Latin: dentiscalpium n
• Macedonian: чепкалка f (čepkalka)

• Maltese: tutpikk
• 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
• Polish: wykałaczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: palito de dentes m
• Romanian: scobitoare (ro) f
• Russian: зубочи́стка (ru) f (zubočístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чачкалица f

  Roman: čačkalica (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
• Thai: ไม้จิ้มฟัน (máai jîm fan)
• Turkish: kürdan (tr)
• Ukrainian: зубочи́стка f (zubočýstka)
• Uyghur: چىش كوچىلىغۇچ‎‎ (chish kochilighuch)
• 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