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单词 pickpocketry
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pickpocketryn.

Brit. /pɪkˈpɒkᵻtri/, U.S. /pɪkˈpɑkətri/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pickpocket n., -ry suffix.
Etymology: < pickpocket n. + -ry suffix. Compare slightly earlier pickpocketing n.
The practice of picking pockets. Also in extended use.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > picking pockets > [noun]
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filing-lay1743
pickpocketry1756
buzzing1819
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pickpocketism1830
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1756 Monthly Rev. June 590 It is with difficulty that they are stretched to the size of a six-penny pamphlet.—O the Pick-pocketry of Booksellers!
1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 238 The crime of pedantry, stupidity, jackassness, and pickpocketry [i.e. plagiarism].
1946 Sunday Jrnl. & Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) 15 Sept. d4/3 She..is greeted..by the stately Professor Aristed, master of—pickpocketry. He impresses Arlette to ‘lift’ the diamond stickpin of an ambassador.
2003 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 2 Mar. (Travel section) t1 If pickpocketry was not a transferable skill to a frontier island, neither was dilettantism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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