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Picked vs Pocked - What's the difference?

picked | pocked |

As verbs the difference between picked and pocked

is that picked is past tense of pick while pocked is past tense of pock.

As adjectives the difference between picked and pocked

is that picked is pointed; sharp while pocked is pockmarked.

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)

    pocked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pock)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • pockmarked