单词 | pluckage |
释义 | pluckagen. rare. The action or process of plucking. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > removal or taking away > by plucking pluckage1835 1835 W. Beckford Recoll. Monasteries Alcobaça & Batalha vi. 63 He..plucked off his beard by handfuls... The details of this frantic pluckage are to be found in a letter. 1855 Sci. Amer. 3 Mar. 197/1 An inventor, if he be so unfortunate as to get a patent, becomes a legal goose, subject to a most indiscriminate pluckage. 2003 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 6 Feb. 1 The rest of the bathroom is..packed with all of her nail polish removers..and exfoliants and scented candles and loofah brushes and articles of pluckage and such. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1835 |
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