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单词 piccy
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piccyn.

Brit. /ˈpɪki/, U.S. /ˈpɪki/
Forms: 1800s– piccy, 1900s– picky.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: picture n., -y suffix6.
Etymology: < pic- (in picture n.) + -y suffix6. Compare later pic n.4
colloquial.
A picture, drawing, photograph, etc. Cf. pic n.4
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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).
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