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chop-stick2|ˈtʃɒpstɪk|
[In Chinese and in ‘pigeon-English’ chop means ‘quick’; ‘quick sticks’ would be a kind of equivalent of the Chinese name, k'wâi-tsze, i.e. ‘nimble boys’, ‘nimble ones’.]
1. pl. The two small sticks or slips of bone, wood, ivory, or the like, held between the thumb and fingers of one hand by the Chinese in place of a fork for conveying food to the mouth. Occas. in sing.
1699W. Dampier Voy. II. i. iv. 85 At their ordinary eating they use two small round sticks about the length and bigness of a Tobacco-pipe. They hold them both in the right hand, one between the fore-finger and thumb; the other between the middle-finger and fore-finger..they are called by the English seamen Chopsticks. 1711Lockyer Acc. Trade India 174 (Y.) They take it very dexterously with a couple of small Chopsticks, which serve them instead of Forks. 1862L. Oliphant Elgin's Mission to China, I. 215 The refined Chopstick replaced throughout the rude knife and fork of the West.
2. pl. A quick tune for the piano played with the forefinger of each hand.
1893E. F. Benson Dodo vi. 121 Edith and her Herr were playing a sort of chopsticks together in the drawing-room. 196020th Cent. Oct. 319 She..showed me how to play chopsticks..my first piano lesson. 1961C. McCullers Clock without Hands xiii. 251 Four of the Lank brood were playing ‘Chopsticks’ on the piano... Jester stood in the sunlight hearing the dead and no-tune ‘Chopsticks’. |