Meanings
- humorousliteraryparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of chopstick
As we chopstuck our way through dizzying medley of dishes, Mariko told me she was back working at the university.
2001, Josie Dew, The Sun In My Eyes: Two-Wheeling East, London: Time Warner, page 2562 more examples
Each of us had set before him a tray of five small covered dishes, — and a pair of chop-sticks. I gasped. It was up to me, however, and I chop-stuck it out, but when it came to a dish of raw fish after I had eaten samples of two other kinds of sea-food (this was Friday) I remonstrated. At the close of the chop-stick exercise the trays were removed and fruit was served with a real knife.
1918 January 29, The Field Afar, New York, page 9, column 1[T]he flaxen Gygas tapped his chronometrum drumdrum and, now standing full erect, above the ambijacent floodplain, scene of its happening, with one Berlin gauntlet chopstuck in the hough of his ellboge[.]
1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber, page 36
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