† pickeern.

Forms: 1600s–1700s pickeer, 1600s–1700s picqueer, 1800s picquer.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pickeer v.

Etymology: Apparently < pickeer v. Compare earlier picory n. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (pikī^ə·ɹ) /pɪˈkɪə(r)/.

Obsolete.

1. A military skirmish. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > skirmish

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1659 R. Brathwait Panthalia 5 The giddy Multitude..after some light picqueers and easie repulses, left unfortunate Clarentio to all extreames.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. xi. §3. 276 Skirmishing, Fray, Velitation, pickeer.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xix. 187/1 Pickeering or firing in Picceer: is a kind of fighting betweene small parties..which is by fireing one at another in their galloping in and out.

1757 H. Brooke Songs Jack Giant Queller 28 No Vaulter from France, with Pickeer and with Prance, to the Curvets of him, can compare.

2. = pickeerer n. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrelsomeness > quarrelsome person

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Sir Wrig-wraga1529

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pickeer1888

1888 J. Hunter-Duvar De Roberval iii. viii. 111 These would be brave picquers. A brace of them attached to every troop Would make superfluous half our commissary.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

pickeerv.

Brit.

/pɪˈkɪə/, U.S.

/pɪˈkɪ(ə)r/

Forms:

α. 1600s pekeer, 1600s picceer, 1600s pickear, 1600s pickeere, 1600s pickqueer, 1600s picquere, 1600s piquere, 1600s–1700s pickere, 1600s–1700s picqueer, 1600s– pickeer, 1600s– piqueer, 1700s pickueer, 1700s piquier.

β. 1600s pickquer, 1600s 1800s– picquer, 1600s–1700s picker.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Apparently formed within English, by derivation; probably partly modelled on a Dutch lexical item, and partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: pick v.¹, -eer suffix².

Etymology: Origin uncertain; apparently < pick v.¹ (compare sense pick v.¹ 11a at that entry) + -eer suffix², probably partly after early modern Dutch pickeren to maraud, pillage (1574; apparently < picken to steal, pilfer (see pick v.¹) + -eren -eer suffix², after Middle French picorer (see below); compare early modern Dutch pickeren to sting, nettle (Dutch pikeren ), Dutch regional (West Flemish) pikereien to steal, pilfer), and partly after French picorer to forage, maraud, pillage, plunder, pilfer (1573 in Middle French; implied slightly earlier by pecorée marauding, pillaging (1571), use as noun of the past participle of the verb), apparently an alteration of piquer to steal, pilfer (see pick v.¹) after pécore farm animals, livestock ( < classical Latin pecor- , pecus livestock: see pecorous adj.). Compare earlier pickery n., picory n.Compare post-classical Latin pecorare, attested in present participle pecorantes, apparently in sense ‘those guilty of bestiality’ (c1290 in a British source), but glossed in Littré as ‘ceux qui pillent les troupeaux’, i.e. ‘pillagers of cattle’; compare also post-classical Latin pecoria farmstead (in an undated Flemish source in Du Cange).

Now archaic and regional.

1. intransitive. To take part in a military skirmish or small-scale raid; to make an excursion ahead of the main body of an army or force; to engage with an enemy in small numbers. Now archaic. N.E.D.(1906) also inferred an early sense ‘to maraud, pillage plunder; to practise privateering or piracy’ from the use of pickeering in that sense: see pickeering n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > piracy > practise piracy [verb (intransitive)]

pirace1598

pickeer1644

pirate1685

1644 [implied in: R. Symonds Diary (1859) 50 We took some prisoners, five or six killed on both sides in piquering. (at pickeering n. 1)].

c1645 I. Tullie Narr. Siege of Carlisle (1840) 6 The scot[c]h hors Picquering a while close by the wals on the east, drew of, after they had faild in snapping Col. Grayes small regement of hors at Stanwick.

c1645 I. Tullie Narr. Siege of Carlisle (1840) 20 Ye Scots sent out 6 or 7 horse to pickere with the other three scouts.

1652 J. Wadsworth tr. P. de Sandoval Civil Wars Spain 290 The Garrison of Simancas,..went almost every daie Pekeering to the gates of Valladolid.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words To Pickear (French piquer), is when particular persons fight between two Armies before the main Battle is begun.

1691 London Gaz. No. 2686/3 Several of our young Gentlemen passed over towards the Enemies Camp, and picquer'd with some of the French.

1705 E. Walker Hist. Disc. i. 65 Every Day to see ours and their Parties piquier from their Guards.

1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 141 When bold Dragoons have been pickering there.

1728 T. Gordon tr. Tacitus Ann. xiii. 335 Tiridates, on his side, pickeer'd about, yet never approach'd within the throw of a dart.

1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiii. xii. 563 South of us..are the Enemy, camped or pickeering about.

1905 A. T. Quiller-Couch Capt. Wyvern's Adventures 117 We did little from day to day save meet and picquer with small bodies of the rebel horse.

2. figurative and in figurative contexts.

†a. intransitive. To make a foray at or towards something; to reconnoitre, scout, be on the lookout. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > flirt, philander, or dally [verb (intransitive)]

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to dally away1685

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romance1907

to fool up1933

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horse1953

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > inspect, survey [verb (intransitive)] > land, etc.

scout1644

pickeer1646

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recce1943

the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > search captiously

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society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contend [verb (intransitive)]

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to have, hold, make, take strifec1374

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combat1597

to go (also shake, try, wrestle) a fall1597

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combatizec1600

scuffle1601

to run (or ride) a-tilt1608

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fence1665

contrast1672

scramble1696

to battle it1715

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passage1895

tangle1928

1646 M. Lluelyn Men-miracles 53 'Twould be a dismall hearing. To send a Letter out pickearing. Your Better sort of Letters goe. With Pistols at the Saddle Bow.

a1658 R. Lovelace Toad & Spyder in Lucasta: Posthume Poems (1659) 45 So within shot she [sc. a spider] doth pickear, Now gall's the Flank, and now the Rear.

1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice i. 8 There never was such an open and general War made on Virtue; young ones at Thirteen will pickeere at it.

1720 D. Manley Secret Mem. (ed. 6) IV. 120 She at first designed Pickueering for Adoration, only to please her Lord.

1737 L. Clarke Compl. Hist. Bible II. iv. 82 The Pharisees, who were always pickeering for Occasions of finding fault.

1878 R. L. Stevenson Edinburgh (1889) 65 Slinking..and pickeering among the closes.

1892 Sat. Rev. 26 Mar. 345/1 The Front Opposition Bench had sent out the Irresponsibles to ‘piqueer’, as an agreeable word in classical English has it.

b. intransitive. To skirmish playfully or amorously, to dally or flirt. Now Irish English.

ΚΠ

1649 C. Wase tr. Sophocles Electra 55 'Twere best a while picquere, And buzze into his ear Some idle tale.

1651 J. Cleveland Poems (Wing C4684) 3 Two souls pickearing in a kiss.

1676 T. Shadwell Virtuoso v. 88 There's a Lady hovering about you, and longs to pickeer with you.

1996 S. Moylan Lang. Kilkenny 198 He used to be pickeerin' around this one.

†c. intransitive. To engage in verbal skirmishing; to wrangle, bicker. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > in noisy or angry manner

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1651 [implied in: J. Drew Northern Subscribers Plea Vindicated 58 We tell them againe, that we are not tentavi Dialectici, pickeering Logicians, neither do we dispute or contend about formalities.].

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 119 No sooner could a hint appear, But up he started to Pickere [18th c. edd. piqueer, picqueer].

a1679 Earl of Orrery Mr. Anthony (1690) i. 9 I protest, Mrs. Isabella, we were only Pickeering a little in Wit.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 358 He said to me, he had often picqueered out (that was his word) on Sheldon, and some other Bishops.

1717 Entertainer No. 6. 32 Pamphlets pickering and pecking at one another from the Press.

1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 59 Dennis..was pickeering at the head of a party. But the abusiveness and scurrility of his pen, rendered all his attacks fruitless.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pickeer
释义	† pickeern. Forms: 1600s–1700s pickeer, 1600s–1700s picqueer, 1800s picquer. Origin: Apparently formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pickeer v. Etymology: Apparently < pickeer v. Compare earlier picory n. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (pikī^ə·ɹ) /pɪˈkɪə(r)/. Obsolete. 1. A military skirmish. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > skirmish bicker1297 skirmishc1374 pointc1440 scourage1470 escarmouche1475 scrimmage1488 scrimmish1523 eskirmish1581 bickerment1586 velitation1616 pickeer1659 1659 R. Brathwait Panthalia 5 The giddy Multitude..after some light picqueers and easie repulses, left unfortunate Clarentio to all extreames. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. xi. §3. 276 Skirmishing, Fray, Velitation, pickeer. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xix. 187/1 Pickeering or firing in Picceer: is a kind of fighting betweene small parties..which is by fireing one at another in their galloping in and out. 1757 H. Brooke Songs Jack Giant Queller 28 No Vaulter from France, with Pickeer and with Prance, to the Curvets of him, can compare. 2. = pickeerer n. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrelsomeness > quarrelsome person conteckerc1300 brawler1377 strivera1400 debater1413 tuilyier1444 briguer1496 Sir Wrig-wraga1529 brabbler1570 squarer1600 pickeerer1656 rafflerc1750 roit1825 pickeer1888 1888 J. Hunter-Duvar De Roberval iii. viii. 111 These would be brave picquers. A brace of them attached to every troop Would make superfluous half our commissary. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). pickeerv. Brit. /pɪˈkɪə/, U.S. /pɪˈkɪ(ə)r/ Forms: α. 1600s pekeer, 1600s picceer, 1600s pickear, 1600s pickeere, 1600s pickqueer, 1600s picquere, 1600s piquere, 1600s–1700s pickere, 1600s–1700s picqueer, 1600s– pickeer, 1600s– piqueer, 1700s pickueer, 1700s piquier. β. 1600s pickquer, 1600s 1800s– picquer, 1600s–1700s picker. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Apparently formed within English, by derivation; probably partly modelled on a Dutch lexical item, and partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: pick v.¹, -eer suffix². Etymology: Origin uncertain; apparently < pick v.¹ (compare sense pick v.¹ 11a at that entry) + -eer suffix², probably partly after early modern Dutch pickeren to maraud, pillage (1574; apparently < picken to steal, pilfer (see pick v.¹) + -eren -eer suffix², after Middle French picorer (see below); compare early modern Dutch pickeren to sting, nettle (Dutch pikeren ), Dutch regional (West Flemish) pikereien to steal, pilfer), and partly after French picorer to forage, maraud, pillage, plunder, pilfer (1573 in Middle French; implied slightly earlier by pecorée marauding, pillaging (1571), use as noun of the past participle of the verb), apparently an alteration of piquer to steal, pilfer (see pick v.¹) after pécore farm animals, livestock ( < classical Latin pecor- , pecus livestock: see pecorous adj.). Compare earlier pickery n., picory n.Compare post-classical Latin pecorare, attested in present participle pecorantes, apparently in sense ‘those guilty of bestiality’ (c1290 in a British source), but glossed in Littré as ‘ceux qui pillent les troupeaux’, i.e. ‘pillagers of cattle’; compare also post-classical Latin pecoria farmstead (in an undated Flemish source in Du Cange). Now archaic and regional. 1. intransitive. To take part in a military skirmish or small-scale raid; to make an excursion ahead of the main body of an army or force; to engage with an enemy in small numbers. Now archaic. N.E.D.(1906) also inferred an early sense ‘to maraud, pillage plunder; to practise privateering or piracy’ from the use of pickeering in that sense: see pickeering n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > piracy > practise piracy [verb (intransitive)] pirace1598 pickeer1644 pirate1685 1644 [implied in: R. Symonds Diary (1859) 50 We took some prisoners, five or six killed on both sides in piquering. (at pickeering n. 1)]. c1645 I. Tullie Narr. Siege of Carlisle (1840) 6 The scot[c]h hors Picquering a while close by the wals on the east, drew of, after they had faild in snapping Col. Grayes small regement of hors at Stanwick. c1645 I. Tullie Narr. Siege of Carlisle (1840) 20 Ye Scots sent out 6 or 7 horse to pickere with the other three scouts. 1652 J. Wadsworth tr. P. de Sandoval Civil Wars Spain 290 The Garrison of Simancas,..went almost every daie Pekeering to the gates of Valladolid. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words To Pickear (French piquer), is when particular persons fight between two Armies before the main Battle is begun. 1691 London Gaz. No. 2686/3 Several of our young Gentlemen passed over towards the Enemies Camp, and picquer'd with some of the French. 1705 E. Walker Hist. Disc. i. 65 Every Day to see ours and their Parties piquier from their Guards. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 141 When bold Dragoons have been pickering there. 1728 T. Gordon tr. Tacitus Ann. xiii. 335 Tiridates, on his side, pickeer'd about, yet never approach'd within the throw of a dart. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiii. xii. 563 South of us..are the Enemy, camped or pickeering about. 1905 A. T. Quiller-Couch Capt. Wyvern's Adventures 117 We did little from day to day save meet and picquer with small bodies of the rebel horse. 2. figurative and in figurative contexts. †a. intransitive. To make a foray at or towards something; to reconnoitre, scout, be on the lookout. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > flirt, philander, or dally [verb (intransitive)] flicker?c1225 dallyc1440 mird?c1625 pickeer1646 to dally away1685 niggle1696 coquet1700 gallant1744 philander1778 flirt1781 fike1804 gallivant1823 butterfly1893 vamp1904 romance1907 to fool up1933 floss1938 cop1940 horse1953 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > inspect, survey [verb (intransitive)] > land, etc. scout1644 pickeer1646 perlustrate1691 recce1943 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > search captiously mouse1575 pickeer1737 society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contend [verb (intransitive)] winc888 fightc900 flitec900 wraxlec1000 wrestlea1200 cockc1225 conteckc1290 strivec1290 struta1300 topc1305 to have, hold, make, take strifec1374 stightlea1375 debatec1386 batea1400 strugglec1412 hurlc1440 ruffle1440 warc1460 warslea1500 pingle?a1513 contend1529 repugn1529 scruggle1530 sturtc1535 tuga1550 broilc1567 threap1572 yoke1581 bustle1585 bandy1594 tilt1595 combat1597 to go (also shake, try, wrestle) a fall1597 mutiny1597 militate1598 combatizec1600 scuffle1601 to run (or ride) a-tilt1608 wage1608 contesta1618 stickle1625 conflict1628 stickle1647 dispute1656 fence1665 contrast1672 scramble1696 to battle it1715 rug1832 grabble1835 buffet1839 tussle1862 pickeer1892 passage1895 tangle1928 1646 M. Lluelyn Men-miracles 53 'Twould be a dismall hearing. To send a Letter out pickearing. Your Better sort of Letters goe. With Pistols at the Saddle Bow. a1658 R. Lovelace Toad & Spyder in Lucasta: Posthume Poems (1659) 45 So within shot she [sc. a spider] doth pickear, Now gall's the Flank, and now the Rear. 1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice i. 8 There never was such an open and general War made on Virtue; young ones at Thirteen will pickeere at it. 1720 D. Manley Secret Mem. (ed. 6) IV. 120 She at first designed Pickueering for Adoration, only to please her Lord. 1737 L. Clarke Compl. Hist. Bible II. iv. 82 The Pharisees, who were always pickeering for Occasions of finding fault. 1878 R. L. Stevenson Edinburgh (1889) 65 Slinking..and pickeering among the closes. 1892 Sat. Rev. 26 Mar. 345/1 The Front Opposition Bench had sent out the Irresponsibles to ‘piqueer’, as an agreeable word in classical English has it. b. intransitive. To skirmish playfully or amorously, to dally or flirt. Now Irish English. ΚΠ 1649 C. Wase tr. Sophocles Electra 55 'Twere best a while picquere, And buzze into his ear Some idle tale. 1651 J. Cleveland Poems (Wing C4684) 3 Two souls pickearing in a kiss. 1676 T. Shadwell Virtuoso v. 88 There's a Lady hovering about you, and longs to pickeer with you. 1996 S. Moylan Lang. Kilkenny 198 He used to be pickeerin' around this one. †c. intransitive. To engage in verbal skirmishing; to wrangle, bicker. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > in noisy or angry manner flitec900 chidec1000 strivec1290 scold1377 wrangle1377 jangle1382 brawlc1440 bickera1450 to have words1490 altercate1530 jar1550 brangle1553 brabble1568 yed1570 fraple?a1598 barrat1600 warble1600 camp1606 to word it1612 caterwaul1621 cample1628 pickeer1651 spar1698 fratch1714 rafflea1796 row1797 barney1850 dudgeon1859 frabble1885 scrap1895 1651 [implied in: J. Drew Northern Subscribers Plea Vindicated 58 We tell them againe, that we are not tentavi Dialectici, pickeering Logicians, neither do we dispute or contend about formalities.]. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 119 No sooner could a hint appear, But up he started to Pickere [18th c. edd. piqueer, picqueer]. a1679 Earl of Orrery Mr. Anthony (1690) i. 9 I protest, Mrs. Isabella, we were only Pickeering a little in Wit. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 358 He said to me, he had often picqueered out (that was his word) on Sheldon, and some other Bishops. 1717 Entertainer No. 6. 32 Pamphlets pickering and pecking at one another from the Press. 1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 59 Dennis..was pickeering at the head of a party. But the abusiveness and scurrility of his pen, rendered all his attacks fruitless. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1659v.1644
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