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The Chinese word for chopsticks meant "fast bamboo". In pidgin English the word for fast was chop chop. So fast became chopand bamboo became stick.
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The English word for chopsticks is chopsticks.
What is the Japanese word for chopsticks when translated into English?
"Chopsticks" is 箸 (hashi) in Japanese.
If there's a word what can it be?
CHOPSTICKS.
Games with the word stick in them?
Chopsticks!
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"Chopsticks are a pair of small, thin sticks used for eating Asian cuisine."
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Silverware is 10 letters, but not the ones you need. How about chopsticks?
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The word "origin" is derived from the French word "origin" and the Latin word "originem," both of which mean, beginning, descent, birth, and rise.
