picked
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /pɪkt/
- Simple past tense and past participle of pick
picked
- Chosen; selected.
- (zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
- the picked dogfish
- (obsolete) fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, V. i. 13:
- He is too / picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
- 1596, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, I. i. 193:
- Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, V. i. 13:
- (obsolete) pointed; sharp
- […] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold.
- Let the stake be made picked at the top.
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