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clothes_peg

clothes peg

See also: clothespeg and clothes-peg

English

Clothes pegs: left, a clip design with a spring; right, simple one-piece design.

Alternative forms

clothes-peg, clothespeg

Noun

clothes peg ‎(plural clothes pegs)

(Britain, New Zealand) An object (usually made of wood) used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline so that it (the laundry) can dry.

Synonyms

clothespin

Translations

an object used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline

Arabic: مِشْبَك مَلَابِس m ‎(mišbak malābis)
Armenian:
Belarusian: прышчэ́пка f ‎(pryščépka)
Bulgarian: щи́пка (bg) f ‎(štípka)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 衣夾 (zh), 衣夹 (zh) ‎(yījiā)
Cree: ᐲᓈᐦᑎᒄ ‎(piinaahtikw)
Crimean Tatar: qısqıs
Czech: kolíček na prádlo m
Danish: tøjklemme (da)
Dutch: wasknijper (nl) m, wasspeld f (Flanders)
Estonian: pesupulk
Faroese: klemma f, toyklemma f
Finnish: pyykkipoika (fi)
French: pince à linge (fr) f, épingle à linge (fr) f
Georgian: მომჭერი ‎(momč̣eri), დამჭერი ‎(damč̣eri)
German: Wäscheklammer (de) f, Kluppe (de) (Austria)
Greek: μανταλάκι (el) n ‎(mantaláki)
Hungarian: ruhaszárító csipesz
Icelandic: þvottaklemma f
Irish: pionna éadaigh m
Italian: molletta (it) f, molletta da bucato f

Japanese: 洗濯挟み (ja) ‎(せんたくばさみ, sentakubasami)
Kazakh: кірқыстырғыш ‎(kirqıstırğış)
Khmer: តម្បៀតខោអាវ ‎(tɑmbiət kʰao aav)
Korean: 빨래집게 ‎(ppallaejipge)
Norman: êpîle à lînge f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: klesklype m, f
Polish: klamerka (pl) f
Portuguese: grampo de roupa m, mola (pt) f (Portugal)
Russian: прище́пка (ru) f ‎(priščépka)
Scottish Gaelic: cnag-aodaich f
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: штипаљка f

Roman: štipaljka (sh) f
Spanish: pinza de tender f, pinza (es) f, (Argentina) broche (es) m
Swedish: tvättpegg c, klädnypa (sv) c
Tajik: чангак (tg) ‎(čangak)
Thai: ไม้หนีบผ้า ‎(máai-nìip-pâa)
Ukrainian: прищі́пка f ‎(pryščípka)
Uzbek: qisqich (uz)
Venetian: mojeca (vec) f