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Utensil for O-Lan
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chopstick
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Word definitions for chopstick in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An-other guy was so thin and pale that he looked like a chopstick with ink on top. ▪ Angrily, she pushed her thoughts away at the same time as she pushed her bowl and chopsticks away. ▪ He puts down his chopsticks and we leave. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also chop-stick , 1690s, sailors' partial translation of Chinese k'wai tse , variously given as "fast ones" or "nimble boys," first element from pidgin English chop , from Cantonese kap "urgent." Chopsticks , the two-fingered piano exercise, is first attested ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. oriental tableware consisting of a pair of sticks used to eat food with [syn: chopsticks ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
chopsticks \chop"sticks`\ (ch[o^]p"st[i^]ks`), n. chopstick (ch[o^]p"st[i^]k`), 1. a pair of slender sticks made of wood, ivory, plastic, etc., used chiefly by the Chinese and Japanese to lift food into the mouth while dining; -- also commonly used around ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A (single) particular East Asian eating utensil, used in pairs and held in the hand, the utensil is a stick, usually made of wood, of approximately 23cm (~10") in length. 2 (context ethnic slur English) an Asian person
Usage examples of chopstick.
Nell knew that there must be mites in there, to make those mediaglyphics, and so she took one of the chopsticks as her magic wand.
She held a chopstick in her left hand, then scratched the word "study" on the miniature beach.
She put the chopstick in the sand, and not knowing what to write, she drew a line and another below that.
Children used chopsticks to play percussion on teacups and water glasses.
She pinched pieces of food with her chopsticks and added these to my bowl.
Ruth is six years old again, the same child, her broken arm healed, her other hand holding a chopstick, ready to divine the words.
Some of them were broad like fans, while others looked like a chopstick with a dot of soft hair at the end.
I even took a chopstick one day and gouged a hole in the bottom of a canvas bag of rice, so she'd have to take everything out of all the cabinets and search for signs of rodents.
If you've ever noticed the way miso settles into a cloud at the bottom of the bowl but mixes quickly with a few whisks of the chopsticks, this is what she meant.
For a moment I watched an old man nearby, who raised up his chopsticks with a little piece of braised tofu and his mouth already as wide as it would go.
Before putting anything in his mouth, he held it up with his chopsticks and peered at it, turning it this way and that.
X, who snatched it with ivory chopsticks, dredged it through an exquisite cloisonné bowl filled with chemical dessicant, and arranged it on a small windowpane of solid diamond.
But Hackworth, who'd eaten his share of Chinese as a student, had never taken well to the plastic chopsticks, which were slick and treacherous in the blunt hands of a gwail o .
Once he'd made that conceptual leap, it wasn't long before he came up with the idea of selling advertising space on the damn things, chopstick handles and Chinese columnar script being a perfect match.
He could only hope that they'd given it the right instructions, as it would be a shame to have a washing machine, a mediatronic chopstick, or a kilo of China 'White materialize in his arm.