ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Picked

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /pɪkt/ · Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Picked is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of pick.

Meaning

simple past and past participle of pick.

More Meanings

  1. (often in combinations) Having a pick, or a particular number/type of pick (in any sense of the word)
  2. Chosen; selected.
  3. (music) Played by picking the strings
  4. (zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
  5. (obsolete) fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
  6. (obsolete) pointed; sharp

Example Sentences

the picked dogfish
Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
He is too / picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
[…] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pickax, pickaxe, woof, weft, nibble, pluck.

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