chopstick
pronunciation
How to pronounce chopstick in British English:
UK [ˈtʃɒpstɪk]
How to pronounce chopstick in American English:
US [ˈtʃɑːpstɪk]
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- Noun:
- oriental tableware consisting of a pair of sticks used to eat food with
Word Origin
- chopstick
- chopstick: [17] A chopstick is literally a ‘quick stick’. The element chop occurs more recognizably in chop-chop ‘quickly’; it is a Pidgin English modification of Cantonese Chinese gap ‘urgent’. ‘Quick stick’ is a rather free translation of the Chinese term for ‘chopsticks’, Cantonese kuàizi, literally ‘fast ones, nimble ones’.=> chop-chop
- chopstick (n.)
- 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 1893, probably from the resemblance of the fingers to chopsticks.
Example
- 1. Needless to say , chopstick skills help .
- 2. But armed only with a disposable chopstick , it may take him a while .
- 3. Bamboo groves they harvested to sell to toy and chopstick makers shriveled and died .
- 4. They cut , slice , pull and even use a chopstick to create different noodle shapes .
- 5. Though the chopstick is the quintessential cutlery choice throughout most of asia , japan and china in particular seem prone to using the disposable variety .