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chopsticking

chopsticking is the present participle and gerund of chopstick.

Meaning of chopstick

Verb

chopstick (third-person singular simple present chopsticks, present participle chopsticking, simple past and past participle chopsticked or (rare) chopstuck)

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To pick up (food), or eat, using chopsticks, or as with chopsticks.
    • Then, holding his plate close to his mouth, he chopsticked it in with his fork, and, with tremendous gusto, called for more.1895, Douglas Sladen, The Japs at Home, London: Ward, Lock & Co., page 101
  2. (obsolete, rare) To fish using a tackle with a chopstick.
    • Plaice, and flat fish of all kinds, are taken from the jetties at Yarmouth; and, by taking a boat, good sport may be had chopsticking for marckerel, whiting, and haddock, large quantities of these fish being caught here by this popular method.1892, Ernest R. Suffling, The Land of the Broads, Stratford: Benjiman Perry, page 306

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Questions about chopsticking

What is chopsticking the present participle and gerund of?
Chopsticking is the present participle and gerund of chopstick.

Words near chopsticking in the dictionary

  1. chopstickers
  2. chopstickery
  3. chopstickful
  4. chopstickfuls
  5. chopstickiness
  6. chopsticking
  7. chopstickish
  8. chopstickism
  9. chopstickless
  10. chopsticklike
  11. chopstickology

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