pick one's nose

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

pick one's nose (third-person singular simple present picks one's nose, present participle picking one's nose, simple past and past participle picked one's nose)

1. (idiomatic) To insert a finger or other object into one's nostril to remove obstructions, especially dried mucus.

   You can pick your friends; you can pick your nose; but you can't pick your friends' noses.

Related terms

• nose-pick
• nose-picker
• nose-picking

Translations

insert a finger into one's nostril

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: دَخَّلَ إِصْبَعَهُ فِي أَنْفِهِ (daḵḵala ʔiṣbaʕahu fī ʔanfihi)

  Egyptian Arabic: لعب في مناخيره (leʕeb fī manāḵīroh)

• Armenian: քիթը քչփորել (kʻitʻə kʻčʻpʻorel)
• Catalan: fer burilles
• Cebuano: hingugmo
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 撩鼻屎 (liu¹ bei⁶ si², liu² bei⁶ si²)

  Mandarin: 挖鼻子 (zh) (wābízi), 摳鼻子／抠鼻子 (zh) (kōubízi), 挖鼻 (zh) (wābí)

• Czech: dloubat se v nose
• Danish: pille næse
• Dutch: pulken (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kaivaa nenäänsä
• French: se curer le nez, se mettre le doigt dans le nez, fourrer son doigt dans son nez
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: in der Nase bohren, in der Nase herumbohren, sich in der Nase pulen (North German), popeln (de) (colloquial)
• Greek: σκαλίζω τη μύτη μου (skalízo ti mýti mou)
• Hebrew: לחטט באף
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: túrja az orrát, orrot túr, bányászik (hu) (colloquial)
• Icelandic: bora í nefið
• Indonesian: mengupil (id), ngupil (colloquial)
• Italian: mettersi le dita nel naso, scaccolare, scaccolarsi
• Japanese: 鼻を穿る (はなをほじる, hana o hojiru), 鼻をほじくる (はなをほじくる, hana o hojikuru)
• Khmer: ឆ្កឹះ​អាចម៍ច្រមុះ (chkəh ʼac crɑmoh)
• Korean: 코를 파다 (koreul pada)
• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: чепка нос (čepka nos)
• Norwegian: plukke nesen
• Persian دست تو دماغ کردن
• Polish: dłubać w nosie
• Portuguese: cutucar o nariz, limpar o salão (pt)
• Romanian: se scobi în nas
• Russian: ковыря́ть в носу́ (kovyrjátʹ v nosú), ковыря́ться в носу́ (kovyrjátʹsja v nosú), колупа́ться в носу́ (kolupátʹsja v nosú)
• Spanish: hurgarse la nariz, hacer píldoras (Spain, colloquial)
• Swedish: peta näsan (sv), peta i näsan (sv), peta sig i näsan (sv)
• Tagalog: mangulangot
• Tamil: மூக்கை நோண்டு (mūkkai nōṇṭu)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: колупа́ти в но́сі (kolupáty v nósi), до́вбати в но́сі (dóvbaty v nósi)
• Vietnamese: ngoáy mũi, cạy rỉ mũi

See also

• rhinotillexomania