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“Eating with one's fingers” in Japanese

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つまみ食い tsumamigui つまみぐい

Eating with one's fingers in Japanese is “つまみ食い” (tsumamigui). Full meaning: eating with one's fingers; snitching food, snatched food, secret eating, food snatched and eaten without the meal starting; embezzlement, misappropriation, exploiting something.

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