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chopsticky en · ADJ

Etymology

From chopstick + -y.

Meanings

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 about living. 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:

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Deriveds

chopstickiness