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Picked vs Peaked - What's the difference?

picked | peaked |

As verbs the difference between picked and peaked

is that picked is (pick) while peaked is (peak).

As adjectives the difference between picked and peaked

is that picked is (obsolete) pointed; sharp while peaked is having a peak or peaks or peaked can be sickly-looking, peaky.

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)

    peaked

    English

    Etymology 1

    See peak

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a peak or peaks.
  • The wizard wore a peaked cap.

    Etymology 2

    See (Etymology 2)

    Alternative forms

    * pekid

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sickly-looking, peaky.
  • * 2000, Toshio Mori and Lawson Fusao Inada, Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori , p. 149,
  • She looked peaked and tired ever since he had volunteered for the army.
  • * 2001, Fred C. Feddeck, Hale Men of Fordham: Hail! , p. 17,
  • While Nixon looked peaked throughout the debate, Kennedy looked like a poised diplomat oozing confidence.
  • * 2004, Don Ecker, Past Sins , p. 276,
  • Peck looked peaked to Williams. He was pale and appeared to be breathing in shallow gasps.

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (peak)
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