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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)
- (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.
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)
- Azerbaijani: burnunu qurdalamaq
- 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), neuspeuteren (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: ឆ្កឹះអាចម៍ច្រមុះ (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
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