Picked vs Peeked - What's the difference?
picked | peeked |
(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:
(peek)
To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
* 2012 , Rachel Kramer Bussel, Going Down: Oral Sex Stories (ISBN 1573447978):
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(computing) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
* 2006 , Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming (page 279)
As verbs the difference between picked and peeked
is that picked is (pick) while peeked is (peek).As an adjective picked
is (obsolete) pointed; sharp.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:
peeked
English
Verb
(head)peek
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) *, probably a fusion of peep and keek.Verb
(en verb)- A pale strip of white skin peeked out from under his waistband.
- Her brown skin peeked through the empty gap in her clothing.
- We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.
