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English
Pronunciation
Verb
picked
- simple past and past participle of pick
Adjective
picked (comparative more picked, superlative most picked)
- (often in combinations) Having a pick, or a particular number/type of pick (in any sense of the word)
- Chosen; selected.
- (music) Played by picking the strings
- (zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
the picked dogfish
- (obsolete) fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 13:He is too / picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 193:Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
- (obsolete) pointed; sharp
, Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. , London: Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, , new edition, volumes (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., , 1843, →OCLC:[…] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold.
1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. , 2nd edition, London: J H for H Mortlock , and J Robinson , published 1708, →OCLC:A very good way to take them, is to drive a stake into the ground about four foot high above the surface of the earth: Let the stake be made picked at the top, that the jay may not settle on it.
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