chopstick


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chopstick/ˈtʃɒpstɪk/
noun each of a pair of small, thin, tapered sticks held in one hand and used as eating utensils by the Chinese and Japanese.
– origin C17: pidgin Engl., from chop ‘quick’ + stick1, translating Chin. dial. kuaìzi, lit. ‘nimble ones’.
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