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Chopstick
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noun Etymology: Chinese Pidgin English chop fast + English stick Date: 1699 one of a pair of slender sticks held between thumb and fingers and used chiefly in Asian countries to lift food to the mouth ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. each of a pair of small thin sticks of wood or ivory etc., held both in one hand as eating utensils by the Chinese, Japanese, etc. Etymology: pidgin Engl. f. chop = quick + STICK(1) equivalent of Cantonese k' w{acirc}i-tsze nimble ones ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n C usually plural one of the two thin sticks that you use to eat food in many countries in Asia ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1699, sailors' partial translation of Chinese k'wai tse "fast ones," first element from pidgin Eng. chop, from Cantonese kap "urgent." Chopsticks, the two-fingered piano exercise, is first attested 1893, probably from the resemblance of the fingers to chopsticks. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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