握にぎり箸ばし

noun

gripping chopsticks like a walking stick (bad manners)

Refers to a specific chopstick etiquette mistake where one holds both sticks together in a fist, resembling how one might hold a walking stick. Considered a breach of Japanese table manners.

• 握にぎり箸ばしは、子こどもがやりがちな箸はしの持もち方かたの一ひとつです。

  Gripping chopsticks like a walking stick is one of the chopstick-holding mistakes children tend to make.