pick one's nose

pick one's nose

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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 ʾiṣbaʿahu fī ʾanfihi) Egyptian Arabic: لعب في مناخيره‎ (leʿeb fī manāḵīroh) Armenian: քիթը քչփորել (kʿitʿə kʿčʿpʿorel) Catalan: fer burilles Chinese: Cantonese: 撩鼻屎 (liu1 bei6 si2, liu2 bei6 si2) Mandarin: 挖鼻子 (zh) (wābízi), 摳鼻子／抠鼻子 (kōubízi), 挖鼻 (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 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, peta i näsan 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