Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the long stiff hairs removed: said of the pelt of a fur-seal.
- Endowed with pluck or courage: with a qualifying adjective.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Having courage and spirit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pluck . - adjective Having had these items
removed byplucking . - adjective of the strings of an instrument
Played by plucking. - adjective Having
courage andspirit ;plucky .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum
- adjective having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl
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Examples
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Freakonomics or a title plucked from the bestseller's list.
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But if your 'story' is correct; that there is a huge supply of unskilled peasants who could be plucked from the farm and put behind idiot-proof machines then there should be no middle class
Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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How often is "the rose plucked from the forehead of a virtuous love to plant a blister there!"
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How often is "the rose plucked from the forehead of a virtuous love to plant a blister there!"
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The next moment the superintendent had been plucked from the doorway raving about rights under the law, and the girls were deserting their machines.
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Keeping people from starving to death is a fine cause to rally behind, some % savings rate plucked from a hat is not.
Trade Deficit, Saving, and Tax Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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I understand that the first episode in the new season is not actually kind of a plucked from the crowd person, but it's actually a celebrity.
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The next moment the superintendent had been plucked from the doorway raving about rights under the law, and the girls were deserting their machines.
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But if your 'story' is correct; that there is a huge supply of unskilled peasants who could be plucked from the farm and put behind idiot-proof machines then there should be no middle class.
Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Much to the despair of the Sisters, the brand plucked from the burning went back to the burning.
amoore5272 commented on the word plucked
Expelled for failing examinations. Found in Jane Eyre Chapter 10 in reference to John Reed.
October 21, 2009