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Kicked vs Picked - What's the difference?

kicked | picked |

As verbs the difference between kicked and picked

is that kicked is (kick) while picked is (pick).

As adjectives the difference between kicked and picked

is that kicked is (slang|smoking|of a pipe) empty with nothing left to smoke but ash while picked is (obsolete) pointed; sharp.

kicked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (kick)

    • Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (slang, smoking, of a pipe) Empty with nothing left to smoke but ash.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    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)