Kicked vs Picked - What's the difference?
kicked | picked |
(kick)
(slang, smoking, of a pipe) Empty with nothing left to smoke but ash.
(pick)
(obsolete) pointed; sharp
* Chapman
* Mortimer
(zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
(obsolete) fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
* 1590 , , V. i. 13:
* 1596 , , I. i. 193:
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
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* (l)picked
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(en adjective)- Picked and polished.
- Let the stake be made picked at the top.
- the picked dogfish
- He is too / picked , too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
- Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries: