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toothpicking

toothpicking is the present participle and gerund of toothpick.

Meaning of toothpick

Verb

toothpick (third-person singular simple present toothpicks, present participle toothpicking, simple past and past participle toothpicked)

  1. (transitive) To spear food on a toothpick.
  2. (transitive) To transfer a sample of bacteria, etc. by means of a toothpick.

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Questions about toothpicking

What is toothpicking the present participle and gerund of?
Toothpicking is the present participle and gerund of toothpick.

Words near toothpicking in the dictionary

  1. toothpatches
  2. toothpick
  3. toothpicked
  4. toothpicker
  5. toothpickers
  6. toothpicking
  7. toothpicklike
  8. toothpicks
  9. toothpickweed
  10. toothpicky
  11. toothplate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toothpicking (page history and authors); toothpick (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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