Noun: joystick
| Singular | joystick |
| Plural | joysticks |
Sample Sentences
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If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. [1989, Microtimes, volume 6, page 140:]
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She playing with my joystick
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All in my two seater [2015, “Gamez”, performed by Maejor ft. Keri Hilson:]
Nouns inflected like joystick
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From joy + stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an airplane. Its relation to the word joy is unclear.
Verbs referencing "joystick"
Dutch Nouns
joystick, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
joystick, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
joystick, Finnish Nouns
ilotikku, Russian Nouns
джойстик, Ukrainian Nouns
джойстик, German Nouns
Joystick.