clothes peg

See also: clothespeg and clothes-peg

English

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

Alternative forms

clothes-peg, clothespeg

Noun

clothes peg (plural clothes pegs)

(British, Australia, New Zealand) An object (usually made of wood or plastic) 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: լվացքի ամրակ (lvacʿkʿi amrak)
Azerbaijani: şpilka, ipəzor (neologism)
Belarusian: прышчэ́пка f (pryščépka)
Bulgarian: щи́пка (bg) f (štípka)
Catalan: agulla d'estendre (ca) f, gafa (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 衣夾／衣夹 (zh) (yījiā)
Cree: ᐲᓈᐦᑎᒄ (piinaahtikw)
Crimean Tatar: qısqıs
Czech: kolíček na prádlo m
Danish: tøjklemme (da)
Dutch: wasknijper (nl) m, wasspeld (nl) f (Flanders)
Estonian: pesupulk (et)
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) f (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 (kırqystyrğyş)
Khmer: តម្បៀត ខោ អាវ (tɑmbiət khao ʼaaw)
Korean: 빨래집게 (ppallaejipge)
Macedonian: шти́пка f (štípka)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хувцасны хавчаар (xuvcasny xavčaar)
Norman: êpîle à lînge f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: klesklype m or f
Persian: گیره لباس (fa) (gire-ye lebâs), گیره رخت (gire-ye raxt), قیدک کالا (qaydak-e kâlâ) (Dari)
Polish: klamerka (pl) f, spinacz (pl) m, żabka (pl) f
Portuguese: prendedor de roupa m (Brazil), pregador (pt) m (Brazil), grampo de roupa m (Brazil), mola (pt) f (Portugal), prisão (pt) f (Madeira)
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: klädnypa (sv) c, tvättklämma (sv) c
Tajik: чангак (tg) (čangak)
Thai: ไม้หนีบผ้า (máai-nìip-pâa)
Turkish: mandal (tr)
Ukrainian: прищі́пка f (pryščípka)
Uzbek: qisqich (uz)
Venetian: mojeca (vec) f

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