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Pickled vs Picked - What's the difference?

pickled | picked |

As verbs the difference between pickled and picked

is that pickled is (pickle) while picked is (pick).

As adjectives the difference between pickled and picked

is that pickled is preserved by pickling while picked is (obsolete) pointed; sharp.

pickled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pickle)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Preserved by pickling.
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  • (label) Drunk.

    • 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)