Picked vs Peaked - What's the difference?
picked | peaked |
(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:
Sickly-looking, peaky.
* 2000, Toshio Mori and Lawson Fusao Inada, Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori , p. 149,
* 2001, Fred C. Feddeck, Hale Men of Fordham: Hail! , p. 17,
* 2004, Don Ecker, Past Sins , p. 276,
(peak)
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)Adjective
(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:
peaked
English
Etymology 1
See peakEtymology 2
See (Etymology 2)Alternative forms
* pekidAdjective
(en adjective)- She looked peaked and tired ever since he had volunteered for the army.
- While Nixon looked peaked throughout the debate, Kennedy looked like a poised diplomat oozing confidence.
- Peck looked peaked to Williams. He was pale and appeared to be breathing in shallow gasps.