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单词 pickery
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pickeryn.

Brit. /ˈpɪk(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈpɪk(ə)ri/, Scottish English /ˈpɪk(ə)rɪ/
Forms: 1500s pekery, 1500s pickerie, 1500s pickery, 1500s picory, 1500s pikery; Scottish pre-1700 peakrie (western), pre-1700 peckrie (western), pre-1700 peikrie, pre-1700 peykrie (south-western), pre-1700 pickerie, pre-1700 pickrie, pre-1700 pickry, pre-1700 pikary, pre-1700 pikere, pre-1700 pikre, pre-1700 pikry, pre-1700 pyckerie, pre-1700 pyckeris (plural), pre-1700 pyckrie, pre-1700 pycry, pre-1700 pyikery, pre-1700 pyikrey, pre-1700 pykeirie, pre-1700 pykerie, pre-1700 pykery, pre-1700 pykerye, pre-1700 pykre, pre-1700 pykrie, pre-1700 pykry, pre-1700 pykrye, pre-1700 pylkerie, pre-1700 1700s– pickery, 1700s peyckery, 1700s pickerye, 1800s pickary, 1800s pikery.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: picker n.1, -y suffix3; pick v.1, -ery suffix.
Etymology: Partly < picker n.1 + -y suffix3, and partly < pick v.1 + -ery suffix.With the Older Scots form pylkerie perhaps compare pilk , variant of pilch v.
Chiefly Scottish. Now rare.
Petty theft; an instance of this.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > [noun]
micherya1393
mitchinga1393
picking1402
purloining1417
pilferc1425
pickery1460
pilfering1548
filching1567
lurching1570
pilfery1573
petty larceny1578
filching-tradea1592
prigging1591
filchery1607
nimming1607
sneaking-budge1699
pilferage1732
cabbaging1774
weeding1819
pilferment1823
crib1855
filch1877
souveniring1919
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > genus Dicotyles > peccary
pickery1460
hog1644
peccary1667
musk hog1683
1460 Ayr Burgh Court Bks. 12 July Thai that ar ordanit to pas of the town for pikre [transcr. pik] & reset.
1488 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Royal Burgh of Lanark (1893) 1 Jame Andro..Kethrin Andro fylit of pycry.
1508 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) I. *53 [Convicted of common Theft and] Pikry.
?a1554 H. Willoughby in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 266 For pickerie ducked at the yardes arme, and so discharged.
1578–84 Court Bk. Lyme Regis (modernized text) f. 279 Hedgebreakers..for the third offence..shall be whipped about the town, as such persons ought to be which commit pekery and petty larceny.
1613–17 in R. M. Fergusson Alex. Hume (1899) 200 For..preventing of the grite stewthe and pykrie that daylie incressis.
1660 D. Ure Hist. Rutherglen & E. Kilbride 73 The pykries..comitted be the gatherers of beir, peis and other cornes in hervest.
1681 Rec. Baillie Court Kelso f. 79 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pyck(e)ry The accusatioune of thift and other pyckrie.
1701 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) II. 539 Being suspect of several litle pickeryes and mesdemanours.
a1765 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) iv. iv. §59 The stealing of trifles, which in our law-language is styled pickery, has never been punished by the usage of Scotland, but with imprisonment, scourging, or other corporal punishment.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. iii. 54 A trifle stolen in the street is termed mere pickery.
1824 A. Crawford Tales Grandmother 276 See if ye can mak' ony han' o' this loon o' a callant, anent this said pickary.
1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) Pickery, is the stealing of trifles, which has never been punished in any other way than by an arbitrary punishment.
1901 N. Munro Doom Castle xiii Rape, arson..pickery, murder, or high treason.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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