pickedとは

意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

picked

1. simple past tense and past participle of pick

形容詞

picked (comparative more picked, superlative most picked)

1. Chosen; selected.
2. (zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.

   the picked dogfish

3. (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:

4. (obsolete) pointed; sharp
   • (Can we date this quote by George Chapman かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     […] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold.

   • (Can we date this quote by Mortimer かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Let the stake be made picked at the top.

派生語

• hand-picked