picking en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈpɪkɪŋ/
- (Southern-England) audio
Meanings
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A gathering to pick fruit.
We went to a strawberry picking last June.
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(qualifier:usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
Gilbert wandered through . . .the haunts of ravenous dogs and homeless cats that kept themselves alive on the choice pickings of the city's garbage.
1899, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 9, in Via Crucis:
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(qualifier:usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
He liked the pickings which the job brought him much better than the job itself.
1919, Anthony Hope, chapter 11, in The Secret of the Tower:easy pickings, rich pickings
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Something picked or pulled out.
The schoolboy flicked his nose pickings across the classroom.
- The act of making a choice; selection.
- The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
- The removal of defects from electrotype plates.
- Dabbing in stoneworking.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pickings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
zone-batch-wave picking · in-store picking · brain-picking · slim pickings · nit-picking · litter picking · warehouse picking · zone-wave picking · picking by SKU · easy pickings · voice picking · case picking · cotton-picking · piece picking · order picking · digital picking · cluster picking · nitpicking · pallet picking · zone-batch picking · speech-based picking · berrypicking · nutpicking · batch picking · zone picking · in the picking · Travis picking · electronic picking · multi-batch picking · waveless picking · multi-order picking · flowerpicking · chronic skin-picking · e-picking · sweep picking · individual item picking · store picking · single order picking · mobile scanner picking · garbage picking · skin-picking disorder · discrete picking
Synonyms
booty (unscrupulously acquired gains) · leftovers (items remaining after others have selected the best)