thumbtack

English

Etymology

thumb +‎ tack

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθʌm.tæk/

Noun

A brass thumbtack

thumbtack (plural thumbtacks)

1. A small nail-like tack with a slightly rounded head that can be pressed into place with light pressure from the thumb; used for hanging light articles on a wall or noticeboard.

Synonyms

• drawing pin (British)
• pushpin

Translations

nail-like tack

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: tach-meud (br) m
• Bulgarian: кабарче n (kabarče)
• Catalan: xinxeta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圖釘／图钉 (zh) (túdīng), 图钉 (zh) (túdīng)

• Czech: připínáček (cs) m
• Dutch: duimspijker (nl), punaise (nl) m
• Esperanto: desegnonajlo
• Faroese: teknistift f
• Finnish: nasta (fi)
• French: punaise (fr)
• Georgian: ჭიკარტი (č̣iḳarṭi)
• German: Reißzwecke (de) f, Reißnagel (de) m, Heftzwecke (de) f
• Hungarian: rajzszög
• Irish: tacóid ordóige f
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• Italian: puntina (it) f
• Japanese: 画鋲 (がびょう, gabyō)
• Korean: 압정 (apjeong) (押釘 (ko))
• Persian: پونز (fa) (punez)
• Polish: pinezka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tacha (pt) f
• Russian: канцеля́рская кно́пка f (kanceljárskaja knópka), кно́пка (ru) f (knópka)
• Slovene: risalni žebljiček (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gózdźik m

• Spanish: chinche (es) f, chincheta (es) f, tachuela (es) f
• Swedish: häftstift n
• Thai: หมุดหัวแบน
• Turkish: raptiye (tr), pünez (tr)

Verb

thumbtack (third-person singular simple present thumbtacks, present participle thumbtacking, simple past and past participle thumbtacked)

1. (transitive) To fix or attach something with a thumbtack.
   • 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter One,

     On the particle-board partition that separated his cubicle from the next, Paul had thumbtacked things that might inspire him […]

Translations

to attach something with a thumbtack

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 用圖釘釘住／用图钉钉住, 用图钉钉住 (yòng túdīng dìngzhù)

• Finnish: kiinnittää nastalla, nastata
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• French: punaiser (fr)
• Portuguese: tachar (pt)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: tachonar (es)