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plucked

verbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //plʌkt//

Having had the feathers, hair, etc. removed by plucking.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of plucksimple past and past participle of pluck

adjective

  1. 1

    Having had the feathers, hair, etc. removed by plucking.

  2. 2

    Played by plucking.

  3. 3

    datedHaving courage and spirit; plucky.

    He could scarcely contain his admiration. "What a plucked un!" he muttered; "what a plucked un! No miss," he added, "you needn't fear. Fear, says I? You never feared nothink in your life. […]

  4. 4

    slangExposed, embarrassed, humiliated, or caught publicly.

Forms

comparative
more plucked
superlative
most plucked
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).