Picking
/ˈpɪkɪŋ/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:16 ptsWWF:20 pts7 letters
Definition of Picking
verb
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
"Don't pick at that scab."
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
"It's time to pick the tomatoes."
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
"She picked flowers in the meadow."
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
"to pick rags"
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
"to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket"
noun
- A gathering to pick fruit.
"We went to a strawberry picking last June."
- (usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
- (usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
- Something picked or pulled out.
"The schoolboy flicked his nose pickings across the classroom."
- The act of making a choice; selection.
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