Picker vs Pickier - What's the difference?
picker | pickier |
Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
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, title= (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something.
(engineering) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
(weaving) The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
(military) A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
(slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
(picky)
Fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right.
(informal) A picture.
* 1988 , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 44
As a noun picker
is agent noun of pick; one who picks.As an adjective pickier is
comparative of picky.picker
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker' s overalls.}}
Derived terms
* cherry pickerpickier
English
Adjective
(head)picky
English
Adjective
(er)- I am very picky about the way my kitchen works.
Synonyms
* fussy * particular * anal retentive * finicky * pedantic * choosy * See alsoNoun
(pickies)- And who knows, I might do a few pickies of you - fully clothed, needless to say.