noun
probing with chopsticks; rummaging in shared dishes with chopsticks
A breach of Japanese table manners: using chopsticks to stir or search through shared dishes to pick out preferred morsels.
探り箸は、一緒に食事をする人に不快感を与えるマナー違反です。
Probing with chopsticks is a breach of etiquette that makes fellow diners uncomfortable.
子どもの頃、祖母に「探り箸をしてはいけません」とよく注意された。
When I was a child, my grandmother often scolded me, saying, 'Don't rummage with your chopsticks.'
迷い箸 refers to hovering chopsticks indecisively over dishes, while 探り箸 specifically means stirring or searching inside a dish.
刺し箸 is spearing food with chopsticks, another table-manner violation, whereas 探り箸 is rummaging or probing.
Compound of 探り (saguri, 'searching, probing') + 箸 (hashi, 'chopsticks'), with rendaku voicing hashi → bashi.