picken

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪkŋ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpikŋ/, (Austria)

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• Hyphenation: pi‧cken
• Rhymes: -ɪkŋ̩

From Middle High German bicken, from Old High German bicken, from Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick, knock”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound”).

• pecken

picken (weak, third-person singular present pickt, past tense pickte, past participle gepickt, auxiliary haben)

1. to peck (of a bird)

   Der Vogel hat schon wieder an die Fensterscheibe gepickt. ― The bird pecked at the window pane yet again.

   Die Hühner pickten ihr Futter. ― The chickens pecked their food.

Same as Etymology 1.

picken (weak, third-person singular present pickt, past tense pickte, past participle gepickt, auxiliary haben)

1. to pick (to grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails)

   Mit viel Mühe pickte er die letzte Olive aus dem Glas. ― With much effort he picked the last olive out of the jar.

From Middle High German bichen, pichen, picken (“to coat with pitch”), from Middle High German pech, bech (“pitch”), from Old High German peh, beh, from Proto-West Germanic *pik (“pitch, tar, wood resin”), from Latin pix (“pitch, tar”). Compare Pech.

picken (weak, third-person singular present pickt, past tense pickte, past participle gepickt, auxiliary sein or haben)

1. (Austria, Bavaria, transitive) to glue, to stick
2. (Austria, Bavaria, intransitive) to adhere, to stick

• kleben

• Pick
• Picker
• Pickerl
• pickig

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picken

1. Alternative form of piken

picken

1. definite singular of pick