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[missdaredevil]

What is a "Q-tip"?Anyone know that?

Thanks

[toe]

a little cardboard stick with cotton
tufts on the ends, used to clean out
your ears. Q-tip is a brand name, but
the generic term is "cotton swab."

^^ toe

[iitimone7]

close toe, however, a cotton swab is not on a stick...it's simply a tuft of cotton used for other purposes.

[toe]

you're thinking of cotton ball. a cotton swab is the generic name for q-tip.



here's a link
http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/literacy/referencematerials/glossaryofliteracyterms/WhatIsACottonSwab.htm