Picking vs Bullying - What's the difference?
picking | bullying |
A gathering to pick fruit.
(usually, pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
* 1899 , , Via Crucis , ch. 9:
(usually, pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in a unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
* 1919 , , The Secret of the Tower , ch. 11:
An act of intimidating a weaker person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.
Persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant for another person.
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As verbs the difference between picking and bullying
is that picking is present participle of lang=en while bullying is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between picking and bullying
is that picking is a gathering to pick fruit while bullying is an act of intimidating a weaker person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.picking
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(en noun)- We went to a strawberry picking last June.
- Gilbert wandered through . . .the haunts of ravenous dogs and homeless cats that kept themselves alive on the choice pickings of the city's garbage.
- He liked the pickings which the job brought him much better than the job itself.
