Pick Definition
- To select with great care.
- To seek and discover flaws or a flaw in:
picked holes in the argument.
- To find fault in a petty way; nitpick.
- To find passage and make careful progress through it:
picked her way down the slope.
- To criticize sharply.
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Pick
- pick and choose
- pick holes in
- pick nits
- pick (one's) way
- pick (someone) to pieces
- pick up on
- pick and choose
- pick apart
- pick at
- pick off
- pick on
- pick one's way
- pick out
- pick over
- pick up
- pick up on
Origin of Pick
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From Middle English picken, pikken, from Old English *pÄ«cian, pȳcan (“to pick, prick, pluck"), from Proto-Germanic *pikōnÄ…, *pÅ«kijanÄ… (“to pick, peck, prick, knock"), from Proto-Indo-European *beu-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound"). Cognate with Dutch pikken (“to pick"), German picken (“to pick, peck"), Icelandic pikka (“to pick, prick").
From Wiktionary
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Middle English piken to prick from Old English pīcian to prick and from Old French piquer to pierce (from Vulgar Latin piccāre pique)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English pik variant of pike sharp point pike5
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Dialectal from pick to pitch, thrust variant of pitch
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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