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Definition: Toothpick |
ToothpickNoun1. Pick consisting of a small strip of wood or plastic; used to pick food from between the teeth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "toothpick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Crosswords: Toothpick |
| English words defined with "toothpick": Picktooth ♦ Toothpicker. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "toothpick": cartridge assembler ♦ Death from Strange Causes ♦ PHONOGRAPH-CARTRIDGE ASSEMBLER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "toothpick": Picktooth ♦ Toothpicker. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Looks like an orange on a toothpick! (So I Married an Axe Murderer; writing credit: Robbie Fox.) Well it looked like Bigfoot used it for a toothpick. (Silver Bullet; writing credit: Stephen King;) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Birth of a Toothpick (1939) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Cranly dislodged a figseed from his teeth on the point of his rude toothpick and gazed at it intently. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Health | The membrane surrounds the cell and acts as a barrier that selects which substances can go in and out of it. After it is made, APP becomes embedded in the nerve cell's membrane, partly inside and partly outside, like a toothpick stuck in an orange. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Toothpick" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "Toothpick" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.83% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "toothpick": toothpick dispenser. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "toothpick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kruese dhëmbësh (quill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مسواك, عود الأسنان, الخلال. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | клечка за зъби. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 牙签. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zubní párátko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tandstikker. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tandenstoker (dental stick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | dentpinglo, dentpingilo, dentpikilo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | خلال دندان (Pick), دندان کاو. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hammastikku, hammaspuikko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cure-dents, cure-dent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | toskpluzer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zahnstocher (pick, toothpicks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | οδοντογλυφίδα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מחצצ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fogpiszkáló (pick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inuktitut | kukkiijaut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stuzzicadenti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '文字 (spicebush), 爪楊枝 , 楊枝 , 楊子 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くろもじ (spicebush), つまようじ, ようじ (baby, child, cradle, infant, tasks, things to do, using characters). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | birrag eeackle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | tutpek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oothpicktay palito (matchstick, pick). (various references) scobitoare (quill, tooth-pick), baionetã (bayonet). (various references) зубочистка (floss, quill). (various references) arkanski lovački nož, čačkalica za zube. (various references) mondadientes (quill). (various references) tandpetare. (various references) kürdan (pick), ince uzun sandal, av bıçağı. (various references) зубочистка (picktooth, quill). (various references) ch'ilib (twig). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "toothpick": toothpicks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "toothpick" (pronounced tuw"thpi'k) |
| 3 | -p i' k | nitpick. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-k-o-o-p-t-t" | |
-3 letters: octopi, photic, ptotic. | |
-4 letters: chook, chott, coopt, hoick, optic, photo, picot, pitch, pooch, potto, thick, tooth, tophi, topic, topoi. | |
-5 letters: chip, chit, chop, coho, cook, coop, coot, hick, hock, hook, hoop, hoot, itch, kith, koph, koto, otic, otto, phot, pick, pith, pock, poco, pooh, thio, tick, toit, took, toot, toph, topi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-k-o-o-p-t-t" | |
+1 letter: toothpicks. | |
+3 letters: photokinetic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 6F 74 68 70 69 63 6B |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01101111 01110100 01101000 01110000 01101001 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o o t h p i c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 006F 0074 0068 0070 0069 0063 006B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)548181867482756977 |
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