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Hicked vs Picked - What's the difference?

hicked | picked |

As verbs the difference between hicked and picked

is that hicked is (hick) while picked is (pick).

As an adjective picked is

(obsolete) pointed; sharp.

hicked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (hick)

    • hick

    English

    Etymology 1

    from Hick, like Rick and Dick short for Richard. compare hillbilly

    Noun

    (s)
  • (pejorative) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.
    • Synonyms
    * boer, boor * country bumpkin * churl * hillbilly * lob * rustic * yokel

    Etymology 2

    .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to hiccup

    • References

    * English ethnic slurs

    picked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pick)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) pointed; sharp
  • * Chapman
    • Picked and polished.
  • * Mortimer
    • Let the stake be made picked at the top.
  • (zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
    • the picked dogfish
  • (obsolete) fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
  • * 1590 , , V. i. 13:
    • He is too / picked , too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
  • * 1596 , , I. i. 193:
    • Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
    (Webster 1913)