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Plucked vs Picked - What's the difference?

plucked | picked |

As verbs the difference between plucked and picked

is that plucked is past tense of pluck while picked is past tense of pick.

As adjectives the difference between plucked and picked

is that plucked is (of something with feathers, hair etc.) Having had these items removed by plucking while picked is pointed; sharp.

plucked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pluck)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of something with feathers, hair etc. ) Having had these items removed by plucking.
  • (of the strings of an instrument) Played by plucking.
  • Having courage and spirit; plucky.

    • 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)