Tom put down his fork and picked up the drumstick with his fingers.
Source: tatoeba (3086926)
Drumstick
//ˈdɹʌmˌstɪk//
Synonyms for "drumstick" (74 found)
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Related words (37)
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1 entriesTranslations
66 translations across 35 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- бутче noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
- палка noun (stick used to play drums)
Chinese Cantonese
3 entries- 雞槌 /鸡槌 noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
- 雞肶 /鸡肶 noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
- 雞髀 /鸡髀 noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 雞腿 /鸡腿 noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
- 鼓棒 noun (stick used to play drums)
- 鼓槌 noun (stick used to play drums)
Danish
3 entries- hønselår noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
- kyllingelår noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
- trommestik noun (stick used to play drums)
Dutch
3 entries- drumstok noun (stick used to play drums)
- drumstokje noun (stick used to play drums)
- trommelstok noun (stick used to play drums)
Finnish
2 entries- kanankoipi noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
- rumpukapula noun (stick used to play drums)
French
2 entries- baguette noun (stick used to play drums)
- pilon noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
Galician
2 entries- muslo noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
- zanco noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
German
3 entries- Hähnchenkeule noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
- Schlegel noun (stick used to play drums)
- Trommelstock noun (stick used to play drums)
Hausa
2 entries- gulā̀ noun (stick used to play drums)
- makaɗi noun (stick used to play drums)
Hebrew
1 entries- פּוּלְקֶע noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
Hungarian
1 entries- dobverő noun (stick used to play drums)
Icelandic
1 entries- trommukjuði noun (stick used to play drums)
Ido
1 entries- tamburo-bastono noun (stick used to play drums)
Indonesian
1 entries- paha bawah ayam noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
Irish
2 entries- bata druma noun (stick used to play drums)
- lorga noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
Italian
1 entries- bacchetta noun (stick used to play drums)
Japanese
2 entries- ドラムスティック noun (stick used to play drums)
- 桴 noun (stick used to play drums)
Korean
2 entries- 드럼스틱 noun (stick used to play drums)
- 북채 noun (stick used to play drums)
Macedonian
2 entries- батак noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
- копан noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
Malay
1 entries- paha ayam noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
Māori
1 entries- toko pahū noun (stick used to play drums)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- trommestikke noun (stick used to play drums)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- trommestikke noun (stick used to play drums)
Polish
2 entries- pałeczka noun (stick used to play drums)
- udko noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
Portuguese
2 entries- baqueta noun (stick used to play drums)
- coxa noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
Russian
2 entries- бараба́нная па́лочка noun (stick used to play drums)
- голя́шка noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- bioran-druma noun (stick used to play drums)
Spanish
4 entries- baqueta noun (stick used to play drums)
- bolillo noun (stick used to play drums)
- palillo noun (stick used to play drums)
- palote noun (stick used to play drums)
Swahili
1 entries- paja la kuku noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
Swedish
3 entries- kycklingben noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
- trumpinne noun (stick used to play drums)
- trumstock noun (stick used to play drums)
Tausug
1 entries- kakatik noun (stick used to play drums)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бараба́нна па́личка noun (stick used to play drums)
- гомі́лка noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
Vietnamese
3 entries- dùi noun (stick used to play drums)
- dùi trống noun (stick used to play drums)
- đùi gà noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
Yiddish
2 entries- פּאָלקע noun (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
- פּויקשטעקל noun (stick used to play drums)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
She could imagine the taste of the tender drumstick seeds on her tongue.
Source: wiktionary
At a given signal, from the boss of the hack, who stands door in hand, the young lady gathers her clothes well up her drumsticks, and would you believe, two steps or springs only, like those of a kangaroo, take her into the house.
Source: wiktionary
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