joystick

From joy +‎ stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an airplane. Its relation to the word joy is unclear.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɔɪstɪk/

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joystick (plural joysticks)

1. A mechanical device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer, or other equipment.
   • 1989, Microtimes, volume 6, page 140:

     If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important.

2. (slang) A penis.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis

   • 2015, “Gamez”, performed by Maejor ft. Keri Hilson:

     She playing with my joystick
     All in my two seater

(mechanical control device):

• center stick
• sidestick

• joystick waggler

joystick (third-person singular simple present joysticks, present participle joysticking, simple past and past participle joysticked)

1. (rare) To manoeuvre by means of a joystick.
   • 2006, Sid Davis, Home makeovers that sell:

     Marketing your home isn't as difficult as joysticking a Mars rover through a crater, despite what many people believe.

   • 2007, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico G Sorrenti, Tomoichi Takahashi, RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X:

     Therefore, part of the errors in the localization results is due to the problem of joysticking the robot exactly onto the marked positions.

   • 2007, Gaurav Suhas Sukhatme, Stefan Schaal, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox, Robotics: Science and Systems II:

     It can run in autonomous mode or be manually joysticked using a radio controller.

• joystick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English joystick.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔi̯.stɪk/

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• Hyphenation: joy‧stick

joystick m (plural joysticks, diminutive joystickje n)

1. joystick
2. tiller extension

Unadapted borrowing from English joystick.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒoi̯stik/, [ˈdʒo̞i̯s̠tik]

joystick

1. (especially gaming) Synonym of sauvaohjain (“joystick”)

• “joystick”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Unadapted borrowing from English joystick.

joystick m (invariable)

1. joystick (device)

From English joystick.

joystick m (definite singular joysticken, indefinite plural joysticker, definite plural joystickene)

1. a joystick

• “joystick” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “joystick” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From English joystick.

joystick m (definite singular joysticken, indefinite plural joystickar, definite plural joystickane)

1. a joystick

• dżojstik

Unadapted borrowing from English joystick.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʐɔj.stik/

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• Rhymes: -ɔjstik
• Syllabification: joy‧stick

joystick m inan

1. joystick

   Synonym: pad

• joystick in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• joystick in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English joystick.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoisˈtik/ [t͡ʃoi̯sˈt̪ik]

• Rhymes: -ik

joystick m (plural joysticks)

1. joystick

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.