<span class="searchmatch">pickers</span>-<span class="searchmatch">up</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">picker</span>-<span class="searchmatch">up</span> pick-purse, pickpurse...
(colloquial) <span class="searchmatch">picker</span>-upper, <span class="searchmatch">picker</span>-upperer <span class="searchmatch">picker</span>-<span class="searchmatch">up</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">pickers</span>-<span class="searchmatch">up</span>) A person employed on a shoot to pick <span class="searchmatch">up</span> dead game. (colloquial) A person who picks...
<span class="searchmatch">picker</span>-<span class="searchmatch">up</span>, <span class="searchmatch">picker</span>-upperer From pick <span class="searchmatch">up</span> + -er. <span class="searchmatch">picker</span>-upper (plural <span class="searchmatch">picker</span>-uppers) (colloquial) A person who picks things <span class="searchmatch">up</span>. (colloquial) A tool used...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">Picker</span> From Middle English pikere, pykare, equivalent to pick + -er. IPA(key): /ˈpɪkə(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ) <span class="searchmatch">picker</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">pickers</span>) Agent noun...
form of pickpurse. c. 1599–1623, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 3, scene 4: Yes, I think he is not a pick-purse nor a horse-stealer <span class="searchmatch">pickers</span>-<span class="searchmatch">up</span>...
See also: winkle <span class="searchmatch">picker</span> winklepicker, winkle <span class="searchmatch">picker</span> winkle-<span class="searchmatch">picker</span> (plural winkle-<span class="searchmatch">pickers</span>) (UK, Ireland) A person who harvests periwinkles (a kind of sea...
wig-<span class="searchmatch">picker</span> (plural wig-<span class="searchmatch">pickers</span>) (dated) A psychotherapist. 1954, Time, page 92: Science fiction may be bad science and worse fiction, but to a good wig-picker...
See Thesaurus:pickpocket cutpurse “pickpurse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. <span class="searchmatch">pickers</span>-<span class="searchmatch">up</span>...
blow-<span class="searchmatch">up</span> From Middle English blow <span class="searchmatch">up</span>, blowe <span class="searchmatch">up</span>, dissimilated forms of earlier Middle English upblowen (> English upblow), equivalent to blow + <span class="searchmatch">up</span>. Compare...
gliainer (“to pick <span class="searchmatch">up</span> (potatoes)”) + -eux gliaineux m (plural gliaineurs) (Jersey) potato-<span class="searchmatch">picker</span>...