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单词 picksome
释义 picksome, a.|ˈpɪksəm|
[f. pick v.1 + -some.]
Choice, fastidious, dainty; particular.
1867F. Francis Angling vi. (1880) 190 Trouts are picksome and hard to please.1888Besant Fifty Yrs. ago viii. 136 We were not quite so picksome in the matter of company as we are now.189919th Cent. 608 The Committee should be very picksome and particular. [Halliwell's sense ‘Hungry, peckish’ was app. a mistake.]
Hence ˈpicksomeness, daintiness.
1881Besant & Rice Captain's Room i, Cucumber readily adapts itself to all palates save those set on edge with pick⁓someness.
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