different between picked vs pecked

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picked

picked (comparative more picked, superlative most picked)

Chosen; selected.
(zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
the picked dogfish
(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:
(obsolete) pointed; sharp
- 1707, John Mortimer, The whole Art of Husbandry
  A very good way to take them, is to drive a stake into the ground about four foot high above the surface of the earth: Let the stake be made picked at the top, that the jay may not settle on it.

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