| 单词 | pickpocketry | 
| 释义 | pickpocketryn.  The practice of picking pockets. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > picking pockets > 			[noun]		 pocket-picking1662 palmistry1711 pickpocketing1742 filing-lay1743 pickpocketry1756 buzzing1819 fogle drawing1823 fogle hunting1823 pickpocketism1830 cly-faking1862 dipping1882 prat-digging1908 whizz1925 whizzing1925 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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