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chopsticky

chopsticky adjective: resembling a chopstick; long and thin.

Adjective

chopsticky (comparative more chopsticky, superlative most chopsticky)

  1. Resembling a chopstick; long and thin.
    • Twisting her think, soggy hair behind her head, she stuffed two chop-sticky spikes through the knot to keep it off her neck.2012, Lizbeth Selvig, The Rancher and the Rock Star, Boston: Lee and Shepard, page 384
  2. Suitable for the use of chopsticks; characterised by the use of chopsticks.
    • It was really fine, the first part in Australia, the two last in China, the latter particularly good, the burning of the English factories in Canton quite life-like, the Chinese buildings well portrayed, and those fellows, those rat-eating, chop-sticky, pig-tailed Chinamen, have an idea or two...1901, Gail Hamilton, edited by H. Augusta Dodge, Gail Hamilton's Life in Letters, Boston: Lee and Shepard, page 179
    • I sit at my desk and rub my chopsticks against each other, even though they're silver-monogrammed chopsticks. Mrs. Mayor got a set of about 20 for a wedding gift and insists Anita and Lei set them on the table any time any vaguely chopsticky food is served.2012, Margo Candela, Underneath It All, New York: Kensington Publishing Corp., page 227

Forms of chopsticky

comparativemore chopsticky
superlativemost chopsticky

Origin of chopsticky

From chopstick + -y.

Words formed from chopsticky

Questions about chopsticky

What does chopsticky mean?
Chopsticky means resembling a chopstick; long and thin.
What part of speech is chopsticky?
Chopsticky is an adjective.

Words near chopsticky in the dictionary

  1. chopstickless
  2. chopsticklike
  3. chopstickology
  4. chopsticks
  5. chopsticksful
  6. chopsticky
  7. chopstix
  8. chopstuck
  9. chopsy
  10. chopt
  11. Choptank

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