picked
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
picked
- simple past tense and past participle of pick
Adjective[edit]
picked (comparative more picked, superlative most picked)
- (obsolete) pointed; sharp
- Chapman
- Picked and polished.
- Mortimer
- Let the stake be made picked at the top.
- Chapman
- (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:
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for picked in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)