Plucked vs Picked - What's the difference?
plucked | picked |
(pluck)
(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.
(pick)
(obsolete) pointed; sharp
* Chapman
* Mortimer
(zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
(obsolete) fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
* 1590 , , V. i. 13:
* 1596 , , I. i. 193:
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
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(en adjective)picked
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(en adjective)- Picked and polished.
- Let the stake be made picked at the top.
- the picked dogfish
- He is too / picked , too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
- Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
