pluckedadj.¹n.

Brit.

/plʌkt/, U.S.

/pləkt/

Forms: 1600s 1900s– pluckt, 1700s– plucked; Scottish pre-1700 pluckit, pre-1700 plukit, pre-1700 plukkit, pre-1700 plukkyt, pre-1700 1700s– plucked.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pluck v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < pluck v. + -ed suffix¹.

a. Stripped, esp. of feathers. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [adjective] > relating to or used in pulling > pulling suddenly or sharply > pulled (at) suddenly or sharply

plucked?1507

shrugged1850

tugged-at1930

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare > stripped of hair or feathers

pilledc1350

plucked?1507

?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 51 I thoght myself a papingay and him a plukit herle.

a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. Prol. 23 Quhat of thir fureis, or Pluto that plukkit duke, Or call on Sibil, deir of a revin sleif?

c1582 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 732 Ane plukit guiss.

1600 tr. T. Garzoni Hosp. Incurable Fooles 156 Her deuise..is a Pluckt-hen with this motto, Quid nostra prosunt?

1621 J. Taylor Superbiæ Flagellum sig. B7^v If that Law were but enacted here, How like a pluckt crow, would Pride soon appeare?

1773 Pract. Brit. & French Hosp. 202 Take..red wine, a half pint; a living pigeon or chicken, plucked; put the whole into a new earthen pipkin [etc.].

1844 W. M. Thackeray Diary 18 Oct. (1945) II. 155 To the Citadel & Mosque of Hassan..the play—the old fellow with his plucked cock—tombs.

1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 44 [She] sold live geese, and plucked geese on the market here.

1958 Times 8 Nov. 3 Soutine's picture, too, could possibly be described as simply a painting of a plucked goose.

2004 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gazette (Nexis) 21 h1 I walk past great piles of fresh cilantro; tables mounded with bags of local sea salt, and a stand festooned with plucked chickens.

b. Of eyebrows: shaped or thinned by removing hairs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > eyebrow > [adjective]

beetle-browed1362

bresedc1400

well-browed1483

supercilious1656

white-browed1740

plucked1762

supraciliary1821

gathered1823

palpebrous1846

palpebral1854

surciliary1874

thatched1889

bushy-browed1912

unplucked1959

monobrowed1973

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [adjective] > coloured (of eyes) > shaped (of eyebrows)

plucked1762

pencilly1839

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 198 Their [sc. the Chinese beauties'] black teeth and plucked eyebrows were..alleged by the Genius against them.

1856 F. Saunders Salad for Social 102 The black teeth, the painted eyelids, the plucked eyebrows of the Chinese fair, have admirers.

1867 Littell's Living Age 14 Sept. 697/1 A wise Chinese woman will take care to have tiny feet, plucked eyebrows, and black finger-nails.

1928 R. Hall Well of Loneliness xlviii. 449 A handsome young man with severely plucked eyebrows.

1962 M. Barrett Return of Cornish Sailor ii. 15 The plucked eyebrow lifted.

1991 Harper's Mag. Jan. 64/1 Her smooth skin, plucked eyebrows, and painted fingernails suggested hours of pampering.

c. Of wool: taken from a dead sheep.

ΚΠ

1787 Obs. Exportation Live Sheep 13 And with respect to plucked wool, every officer of excise..should give an account in writing..of the number of pelts from which wool has been plucked.

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. at Plucked Plucked wool, sheep's wool plucked after death.

1932 E. Midgley Techn. Terms Textile Trade II. 156 Plucked wool, wool plucked from a sheep which has been dead a few days. Sometimes this term is applied to skin wool.

1996 AAP Newsfeed (Nexis) 28 May He said he would also not extend the levy to wool biologically harvested, or dead and plucked wool, because it would collect few funds.

d. Of a dressed fur: having had some longer hairs removed.

ΚΠ

1878 Helena (Montana) Independent 20 Sept. (advt.) Call on Greenhond, Bohm & Co. for buffalo overcoats, made with fine plucked beaver collars and cuffs.

1921 A. C. Laut Fur Trade Amer. iii. 33 Plucked otter is sold dyed for Alaska seal.

1974 H. McCloy Sleepwalker v. 72 A short coat of plucked nutria.

2. Textiles. Of cotton or wool fibres: of uneven thickness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [adjective] > with defects or irregularities

gouty1597

twittered1603

plucked1738

snickey1845

twitty1856

1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory iv. 101 Fine short-pluck'd Cotton.

?1785 Artist's Assistant in Study Mech. Sci. (new ed.) 203 Take..cloth shaving, or fine short plucked cotton, and fine clear sand.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 654/2 Plucked.., the term used to denote uneven thickness in a top, roving, or yarn, generally caused by excessive draft.

3. Of a flower, fruit, etc.: that has been picked off from where it grows or is attached; pulled or tugged.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [adjective] > removed or taken away > plucking or plucked

pulleda1325

plucking1577

plucked1774

1774 J. White Charles & Teresa 17 The velvet blush of the new plucked peach.

1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus i. ii. 38 So let me fall like the pluck'd rose!

1868 F. N. Broome Poems N.Z. 75 Placing a poor plucked flower upon her mouth.

1924 C. Mackenzie Heavenly Ladder 330 He wished that he could return to that ark with a pluckt olive-leaf as a token that the waters of war were abated.

1953 Econ. Devel. Ceylon (Internat. Bank for Reconstruction & Devel.) 582 The plucked leaf is carried by hand to the top floor of the factory. There..it is spread out by hand on withering racks.

2003 Time Internat. (Nexis) 18 Aug. 92 The rooms were still full of the aroma of wood shavings—it stayed..until pushed out in October by the fragrance of freshly plucked apples.

4. Of an examination candidate, etc.: that has failed or been rejected (see pluck v. 8). Also (occasionally) as n. with the and plural agreement: people who have failed an examination. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > educational administration > examination > [adjective] > failed

plucked1827

zapped1962

1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 895 Of the three classes of Predicamentists, the fiercest are the Plucked.

1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxii. 208 A plucked man is a dismal being in a university.

1889 Times 16 Feb. 7/2 Officers..argue that the plucked candidates who have to serve two years against their will are likely to form a standing collection of malcontents in the army.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 17 Dec. 8/2 They..concluded that there was more promise in that plucked student than in many a passed man.

5. Music. Of a musical instrument, or its strings: sounded or played by plucking.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > [adjective] > plucked

pizzicato1880

plucked1881

fingerstyle1934

1881 J. Broadhouse Student's Helmholtz 197 The tone of plucked cat-gut strings..is..much less tinkling than that of metal strings.

1904 Science 11 Mar. 426/2 There are 43 plates of 24 plucked instruments—psaltery, spinet and harpsichord.

1930 tr. C. Sachs in O. Andersson Bowed-harp i. 30 Towards the west come the late mediæval plucked lyres of the Norwegians.

1984 New Grove Dict. Musical Instruments II. 642/2 ‘Plucked drums’ have a string knotted below the centre of the membrane.

2000 A. Calcutt Brit Cult 63/1 Bhangra is a traditional form of music from the Punjab,..played on big drums and a plucked instrument with only one string.

6. Physical Geography. Of rock: eroded or broken off by glacial ice. Also with out. Cf. pluck v. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > glaciation > [adjective] > specific processes

plucked1893

ice-scoured1897

quarried1909

transfluent1951

sapped1972

1893 N. S. Shaler in Bull. Mus. Compar. Zoöl. Harvard 16 210 The plucked out material carried away in the form of boulders amounts to as much as one fifth of that removed in the other forms of erosion.

1942 C. A. Cotton Climatic Accidents Landscape-making xvii. 245 Shorn hills may..present somewhat steep lee sides, perhaps plucked.

1957 J. K. Charlesworth Quaternary Era I. xi The 249 boundary between abraded and plucked surfaces is sometimes that between different kinds of rock.

2004 Sedimentary Geol. 172 33 The scoured and plucked nature of the Krepputangahraun.

Derivatives

ˈpluckedness n. rare

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > stripping or being stripped of feathers > condition of

pluckedness1867

1867 Good Words 8 657/2 The abject nakedness—more than nakedness—pluckedness of his body.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pluckedadj.²

Brit.

/plʌkt/, U.S.

/pləkt/

Forms: see pluck n.¹ and -ed suffix²

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pluck n.¹, -ed suffix².

Etymology: < pluck n.¹ + -ed suffix².

colloquial. Now chiefly archaic.

Having pluck or courage; esp. in (good, etc.) plucked one (also 'un). Conversely †bad-plucked one.† hard-plucked adj. Obsolete hard-hearted, lacking compassion.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > courage > spirit > [adjective]

braga1350

animose?a1425

heartlya1450

stomachous1547

bold-spirited1597

mettled1599

mettle1606

animous1609

stomachful1610

stomachious1611

brave-spiriteda1617

mettlesome1673

game1752

spunky1786

spunk1788

gamelike1804

good-woolled1846

plucked1846

bold-hearted1847

gamey1849

gameful1853

gutsy1893

feisty1896

gutty1953

the mind > emotion > courage > daring > [adjective]

keenc897

dearOE

bolda1000

hardyc1225

yepec1275

crousea1400

jeopardousa1513

audacious1550

facing1564

venturous1565

daring1582

daring-hardy1597

audaculous1603

dareful1614

adventuresome1628

outdacious1742

risky1826

plucky1835

plucked1846

racy1901

have-a-go1953

philobatic1955

Boy's Own1967

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > callous or hard-hearted

hard hearteOE

steelena1000

hardOE

hard-heartedc1225

stony?c1230

yhert1340

dure1412

hardedc1425

induratec1425

stonishc1450

hardenedc1480

steely1508

flinty1536

endured1540

stiff-stomached1540

heartless1556

indured1558

flint-hearted1560

iron1561

marble1565

stone-hearted?1569

stony-hearted1569

iron-hearted1570

steel-hearted1571

rocky?1578

brawned1582

flinted1582

padded1583

obdure?1590

brawny1596

flintful1596

flint-heart1596

steeled1600

cauterized1603

indurated1604

flinty-hearted1629

ahenean1630

dedolent1633

brawny-hearteda1639

hard-grained1643

callous1647

upsitten1682

seared1684

petrified1720

calloused1746

coreless1813

pebble-hearted1816

hard-shelled1848

hard-plucked1857

steel trap1921

1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 79 At a set to, he is a Dick Curtis the second; and an out and out plucked one.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxvii. 338 What a good plucked one that boy of mine is!

1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. vii. 164 The bad plucked ones thinking that after all it isn't worth while to keep it up.

1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. iv. 118 A very sensible man,..but a terrible hard-plucked one.

1873 Routledge's Young Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 137/2 ‘You see I'm a plucked'un’, he said.

1890 A. Conan Doyle Firm of Girdlestone xx. 161 ‘He has shot himself through the head.’.. ‘He's a bad plucked 'un to knock under like that.’

1938 D. Fortune Sea Priestess xxvii. 249 I could see her square her shoulders and brace herself to meet it. She was a good-plucked kid.

1972 P. O'Brian Post Captain iii. 68 Once he was in the ring, once he was challenged, he would fight. He was a rare plucked 'un, and he went on even when there was no hope at all.

2001 Cairns (Queensland) Post (Nexis) 27 Aug. 3 The fighting journalist of Thady O'Kane's brand, who died at Cairns recently, was a good plucked 'un.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	plucked
释义	pluckedadj.¹n. Brit. /plʌkt/, U.S. /pləkt/ Forms: 1600s 1900s– pluckt, 1700s– plucked; Scottish pre-1700 pluckit, pre-1700 plukit, pre-1700 plukkit, pre-1700 plukkyt, pre-1700 1700s– plucked. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pluck v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < pluck v. + -ed suffix¹. 1. a. Stripped, esp. of feathers. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [adjective] > relating to or used in pulling > pulling suddenly or sharply > pulled (at) suddenly or sharply plucked?1507 shrugged1850 tugged-at1930 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare > stripped of hair or feathers pilledc1350 plucked?1507 ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 51 I thoght myself a papingay and him a plukit herle. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. Prol. 23 Quhat of thir fureis, or Pluto that plukkit duke, Or call on Sibil, deir of a revin sleif? c1582 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 732 Ane plukit guiss. 1600 tr. T. Garzoni Hosp. Incurable Fooles 156 Her deuise..is a Pluckt-hen with this motto, Quid nostra prosunt? 1621 J. Taylor Superbiæ Flagellum sig. B7^v If that Law were but enacted here, How like a pluckt crow, would Pride soon appeare? 1773 Pract. Brit. & French Hosp. 202 Take..red wine, a half pint; a living pigeon or chicken, plucked; put the whole into a new earthen pipkin [etc.]. 1844 W. M. Thackeray Diary 18 Oct. (1945) II. 155 To the Citadel & Mosque of Hassan..the play—the old fellow with his plucked cock—tombs. 1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 44 [She] sold live geese, and plucked geese on the market here. 1958 Times 8 Nov. 3 Soutine's picture, too, could possibly be described as simply a painting of a plucked goose. 2004 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gazette (Nexis) 21 h1 I walk past great piles of fresh cilantro; tables mounded with bags of local sea salt, and a stand festooned with plucked chickens. b. Of eyebrows: shaped or thinned by removing hairs. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > eyebrow > [adjective] beetle-browed1362 bresedc1400 well-browed1483 supercilious1656 white-browed1740 plucked1762 supraciliary1821 gathered1823 palpebrous1846 palpebral1854 surciliary1874 thatched1889 bushy-browed1912 unplucked1959 monobrowed1973 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [adjective] > coloured (of eyes) > shaped (of eyebrows) plucked1762 pencilly1839 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 198 Their [sc. the Chinese beauties'] black teeth and plucked eyebrows were..alleged by the Genius against them. 1856 F. Saunders Salad for Social 102 The black teeth, the painted eyelids, the plucked eyebrows of the Chinese fair, have admirers. 1867 Littell's Living Age 14 Sept. 697/1 A wise Chinese woman will take care to have tiny feet, plucked eyebrows, and black finger-nails. 1928 R. Hall Well of Loneliness xlviii. 449 A handsome young man with severely plucked eyebrows. 1962 M. Barrett Return of Cornish Sailor ii. 15 The plucked eyebrow lifted. 1991 Harper's Mag. Jan. 64/1 Her smooth skin, plucked eyebrows, and painted fingernails suggested hours of pampering. c. Of wool: taken from a dead sheep. ΚΠ 1787 Obs. Exportation Live Sheep 13 And with respect to plucked wool, every officer of excise..should give an account in writing..of the number of pelts from which wool has been plucked. 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. at Plucked Plucked wool, sheep's wool plucked after death. 1932 E. Midgley Techn. Terms Textile Trade II. 156 Plucked wool, wool plucked from a sheep which has been dead a few days. Sometimes this term is applied to skin wool. 1996 AAP Newsfeed (Nexis) 28 May He said he would also not extend the levy to wool biologically harvested, or dead and plucked wool, because it would collect few funds. d. Of a dressed fur: having had some longer hairs removed. ΚΠ 1878 Helena (Montana) Independent 20 Sept. (advt.) Call on Greenhond, Bohm & Co. for buffalo overcoats, made with fine plucked beaver collars and cuffs. 1921 A. C. Laut Fur Trade Amer. iii. 33 Plucked otter is sold dyed for Alaska seal. 1974 H. McCloy Sleepwalker v. 72 A short coat of plucked nutria. 2. Textiles. Of cotton or wool fibres: of uneven thickness. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [adjective] > with defects or irregularities gouty1597 twittered1603 plucked1738 snickey1845 twitty1856 1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory iv. 101 Fine short-pluck'd Cotton. ?1785 Artist's Assistant in Study Mech. Sci. (new ed.) 203 Take..cloth shaving, or fine short plucked cotton, and fine clear sand. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 654/2 Plucked.., the term used to denote uneven thickness in a top, roving, or yarn, generally caused by excessive draft. 3. Of a flower, fruit, etc.: that has been picked off from where it grows or is attached; pulled or tugged. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [adjective] > removed or taken away > plucking or plucked pulleda1325 plucking1577 plucked1774 1774 J. White Charles & Teresa 17 The velvet blush of the new plucked peach. 1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus i. ii. 38 So let me fall like the pluck'd rose! 1868 F. N. Broome Poems N.Z. 75 Placing a poor plucked flower upon her mouth. 1924 C. Mackenzie Heavenly Ladder 330 He wished that he could return to that ark with a pluckt olive-leaf as a token that the waters of war were abated. 1953 Econ. Devel. Ceylon (Internat. Bank for Reconstruction & Devel.) 582 The plucked leaf is carried by hand to the top floor of the factory. There..it is spread out by hand on withering racks. 2003 Time Internat. (Nexis) 18 Aug. 92 The rooms were still full of the aroma of wood shavings—it stayed..until pushed out in October by the fragrance of freshly plucked apples. 4. Of an examination candidate, etc.: that has failed or been rejected (see pluck v. 8). Also (occasionally) as n. with the and plural agreement: people who have failed an examination. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > examination > [adjective] > failed plucked1827 zapped1962 1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 895 Of the three classes of Predicamentists, the fiercest are the Plucked. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxii. 208 A plucked man is a dismal being in a university. 1889 Times 16 Feb. 7/2 Officers..argue that the plucked candidates who have to serve two years against their will are likely to form a standing collection of malcontents in the army. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 17 Dec. 8/2 They..concluded that there was more promise in that plucked student than in many a passed man. 5. Music. Of a musical instrument, or its strings: sounded or played by plucking. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > [adjective] > plucked pizzicato1880 plucked1881 fingerstyle1934 1881 J. Broadhouse Student's Helmholtz 197 The tone of plucked cat-gut strings..is..much less tinkling than that of metal strings. 1904 Science 11 Mar. 426/2 There are 43 plates of 24 plucked instruments—psaltery, spinet and harpsichord. 1930 tr. C. Sachs in O. Andersson Bowed-harp i. 30 Towards the west come the late mediæval plucked lyres of the Norwegians. 1984 New Grove Dict. Musical Instruments II. 642/2 ‘Plucked drums’ have a string knotted below the centre of the membrane. 2000 A. Calcutt Brit Cult 63/1 Bhangra is a traditional form of music from the Punjab,..played on big drums and a plucked instrument with only one string. 6. Physical Geography. Of rock: eroded or broken off by glacial ice. Also with out. Cf. pluck v. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > glaciation > [adjective] > specific processes plucked1893 ice-scoured1897 quarried1909 transfluent1951 sapped1972 1893 N. S. Shaler in Bull. Mus. Compar. Zoöl. Harvard 16 210 The plucked out material carried away in the form of boulders amounts to as much as one fifth of that removed in the other forms of erosion. 1942 C. A. Cotton Climatic Accidents Landscape-making xvii. 245 Shorn hills may..present somewhat steep lee sides, perhaps plucked. 1957 J. K. Charlesworth Quaternary Era I. xi The 249 boundary between abraded and plucked surfaces is sometimes that between different kinds of rock. 2004 Sedimentary Geol. 172 33 The scoured and plucked nature of the Krepputangahraun. Derivatives ˈpluckedness n. rare ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > stripping or being stripped of feathers > condition of pluckedness1867 1867 Good Words 8 657/2 The abject nakedness—more than nakedness—pluckedness of his body. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pluckedadj.² Brit. /plʌkt/, U.S. /pləkt/ Forms: see pluck n.¹ and -ed suffix² Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pluck n.¹, -ed suffix². Etymology: < pluck n.¹ + -ed suffix². colloquial. Now chiefly archaic. Having pluck or courage; esp. in (good, etc.) plucked one (also 'un). Conversely †bad-plucked one.† hard-plucked adj. Obsolete hard-hearted, lacking compassion. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > spirit > [adjective] braga1350 animose?a1425 heartlya1450 stomachous1547 bold-spirited1597 mettled1599 mettle1606 animous1609 stomachful1610 stomachious1611 brave-spiriteda1617 mettlesome1673 game1752 spunky1786 spunk1788 gamelike1804 good-woolled1846 plucked1846 bold-hearted1847 gamey1849 gameful1853 gutsy1893 feisty1896 gutty1953 the mind > emotion > courage > daring > [adjective] keenc897 dearOE bolda1000 hardyc1225 yepec1275 crousea1400 jeopardousa1513 audacious1550 facing1564 venturous1565 daring1582 daring-hardy1597 audaculous1603 dareful1614 adventuresome1628 outdacious1742 risky1826 plucky1835 plucked1846 racy1901 have-a-go1953 philobatic1955 Boy's Own1967 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > callous or hard-hearted hard hearteOE steelena1000 hardOE hard-heartedc1225 stony?c1230 yhert1340 dure1412 hardedc1425 induratec1425 stonishc1450 hardenedc1480 steely1508 flinty1536 endured1540 stiff-stomached1540 heartless1556 indured1558 flint-hearted1560 iron1561 marble1565 stone-hearted?1569 stony-hearted1569 iron-hearted1570 steel-hearted1571 rocky?1578 brawned1582 flinted1582 padded1583 obdure?1590 brawny1596 flintful1596 flint-heart1596 steeled1600 cauterized1603 indurated1604 flinty-hearted1629 ahenean1630 dedolent1633 brawny-hearteda1639 hard-grained1643 callous1647 upsitten1682 seared1684 petrified1720 calloused1746 coreless1813 pebble-hearted1816 hard-shelled1848 hard-plucked1857 steel trap1921 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 79 At a set to, he is a Dick Curtis the second; and an out and out plucked one. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxvii. 338 What a good plucked one that boy of mine is! 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. vii. 164 The bad plucked ones thinking that after all it isn't worth while to keep it up. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. iv. 118 A very sensible man,..but a terrible hard-plucked one. 1873 Routledge's Young Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 137/2 ‘You see I'm a plucked'un’, he said. 1890 A. Conan Doyle Firm of Girdlestone xx. 161 ‘He has shot himself through the head.’.. ‘He's a bad plucked 'un to knock under like that.’ 1938 D. Fortune Sea Priestess xxvii. 249 I could see her square her shoulders and brace herself to meet it. She was a good-plucked kid. 1972 P. O'Brian Post Captain iii. 68 Once he was in the ring, once he was challenged, he would fight. He was a rare plucked 'un, and he went on even when there was no hope at all. 2001 Cairns (Queensland) Post (Nexis) 27 Aug. 3 The fighting journalist of Thady O'Kane's brand, who died at Cairns recently, was a good plucked 'un. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹n.?1507adj.²1846
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pluckedadj.1n.

Derivatives

pluckedadj.2

pluckedadj.¹n.

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