drumstick

See also: drum stick

English

Etymology

From drum +‎ stick.

Noun

drumstick (plural drumsticks)

1. A stick used to play drums. [from 16th c.]
2. The second joint of the legbone of a chicken or other fowl, especially as an item of food. [from 17th c.]
3. (South Asia, Myanmar) The moringa or drumstick tree, Moringa oleifera, especially its slender, cylindrical pods. [from 19th c.]
   • 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee (fiction), translation of original in Assamese:

     She could imagine the taste of the tender drumstick seeds on her tongue.

4. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A person's leg.
   • 1855, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Nature and Human Nature, page 235:

     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.

Alternative forms

• (stick used to play drums): drum stick

Synonyms

• (chicken): chicken leg, drummer

Coordinate terms

• (chicken): chicken thigh, thigh

Related terms

• (chicken): drumette

Translations

stick used to play drums

• Bulgarian: палка (bg) f (palka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼓槌 (zh) (gǔchuí), 鼓棒 (gǔbàng)

• Danish: trommestik (da) c
• Dutch: drumstokje, drumstok (nl), trommelstok (nl) m
• Finnish: rumpukapula (fi)
• French: baguette (fr) f
• German: Trommelstock m, Schlegel (de) m
• Hausa: gulā̀ f, makaɗi
• Hungarian: dobverő (hu)
• Icelandic: trommukjuði m
• Ido: tamburo-bastono (io)
• Irish: bata druma m
• Italian: bacchetta (it)
• Japanese: ドラムスティック (doramusutikku), 桴 (ja) (bachi)
• Maori: toko pahū
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trommestikke (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: trommestikke f

• Polish: pałeczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: baqueta (pt) f
• Russian: бараба́нная па́лочка f (barabánnaja páločka)
• Scottish Gaelic: bioran-druma m
• Spanish: baqueta (es) f, palillo (es) m, bolillo m (Cuba, El Salvador)
• Swedish: trumpinne (sv) c, trumstock (sv) c
• Tausug: kakatik
• Vietnamese: dùi trống, dùi (vi)
• Yiddish: פּויקשטעקל n (poykshtekl)

leg bone of a chicken or other fowl

• Bulgarian: бутче n (butče)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雞髀／鸡髀 (gai¹ bei²), 雞肶／鸡肶 (gai¹ bei²), 雞槌／鸡槌 (gai¹ ceoi^4-2)

  Mandarin: 雞腿／鸡腿 (zh) (jītuǐ)

• Danish: kyllingelår n, hønselår n
• Finnish: kanankoipi
• French: pilon (fr) m
• Galician: zanco m, muslo (gl) m
• German: Hähnchenkeule (de) f
• Hebrew: פּוּלְקֶע (he) m (púlqe)
• Indonesian: paha bawah ayam
• Irish: lorga f
• Macedonian: батак m (batak)
• Malay: paha ayam
• Polish: udko (pl) n
• Portuguese: coxa (pt) f
• Russian: голя́шка (ru) f (goljáška)
• Swahili: paja la kuku
• Swedish: kycklingben n
• Ukrainian: гомі́лка f (homílka)
• Vietnamese: đùi gà
• Yiddish: פּאָלקע f (polke)

moringa — see moringa

Further reading

• drum stick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English drumstick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrʏm.stɪk/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: drum‧stick

Noun

drumstick m (plural drumsticks, diminutive drumstickje n)

1. A drumstick, the lower leg of a fowl (especially a chicken).
2. (uncommon) A drumstick, a stick used for drumming.

   Synonym: drumstok

Hyponyms

• (lower leg of a fowl): kippenpoot