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pickery

English

Etymology

From pick (to steal), or perhaps from pickeer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p?k??i/
  • Rhymes: -?k??i

Noun

pickery (plural pickeries)

  1. A place where cotton is picked.
  2. (Scotland) petty theft
    • If any man be taken with theft or pickery, and thereof convicted, he shall have his head polled, and hot pitch poured upon his pate []

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puckery

English

Etymology

pucker +? -y

Adjective

puckery (comparative more puckery, superlative most puckery)

  1. Very sour, so that the lips pucker.
  2. Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.

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