Since we eat with chopsticks a lot in our house, I looked up the word and found cipíní itheacháin literally "little eating sticks".

Would it be safe to assume that this could be shortened, like other longish words, to simply cipíní as long as your listeners already understood what kind of sticks you were talking about?

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Ah ha, the traditional eating tools of Ireland, the chopsticks.... You'd probably have to seek out the ancient manuscripts for that one! And then there'll be the differences between dialects........!

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Interestingly focal.ie only gives the translation for chopsticks relating to music. It's chopsticks as Gaeilge apparently. They sat up all night working out a translation for that one!

Bhuel if you key in chop-stick with a hyphen, they give you the same thing as our Breandán has posted.

@Scooby - Yeah, I saw that - a bit of a disappointment really.

@Franc - Thanks, Franc, I should have thought of putting in a hyphen, but it's a bit sad when a search engine doesn't give you any hits if you use the plural to search for something (especially something that is almost never singular.)

@Saoirse - I actually found the word in De Bhaldraithe (1959), the old-fashioned way, so they must have known about them in Ireland for a while now, I think.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).