单词 | piccy |
释义 | piccyn. colloquial. A picture, drawing, photograph, etc. Cf. pic n.4 ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [noun] > a picture metingOE portraiturea1393 picture?a1425 piece1503 portrait1560 pictural1590 composure?1606 transumpt1629 composition1753 delineation1772 depictment1816 vraisemblance1857 piccy1865 pic1884 pitcher1915 pictorial1949 1865 A. Macdonald Let. in A. W. Baldwin Macdonald Sisters (1960) vi. 88 Now he finds he can do it so well, there is something to take to when ‘piccys’ fail, as Phil calls them. 1889 R. Kipling Let. in C. E. Carrington R. Kipling (1955) vi. 143 It's mighty curious to see behind an R.A.'s piccy and note the bits of things it is made up of. 1931 E. F. Benson Mapp & Lucia iii. 64 Go on with your picky, as if I was not here. How well you've got the perspective! 1968 A. Diment Bang Bang Birds i. v. 75 They popped my piccy into a dud passport. 1996 M. Burgess Junk (1997) xi. 118 One of those art photograph books—black and white piccies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1865 |
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