pickeer
/pɪˈkɪə/(also piqueer, picquer) Now archaic and regional
verb
To skirmish playfully or amorously, to dally or flirt. Now Irish English.
Origin
Mid 17th century (in an earlier sense). Origin uncertain; apparently from pick + -eer, probably partly after early modern Dutch pickeren to maraud, pillage (1574; apparently from picken to steal, pilfer + -eren, after Middle French picorer; 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, apparently an alteration of piquer to steal, pilfer after pécore farm animals, livestock.
- put (or stick) one's oar in
- put (or throw) someone off the scent
- put out
- put out to grass
- put (out) to sea
- put paid to
- put-put
- putrefacient
- putrefact
- putrefacted
- putrefaction
- putrefactious
- putrefactive
- putrefiable
- putrefication
- putrefier
- putrefy
- putrescence
- putrescent
- putrescibility
- putrescible
- putrescine
- putrid
- putrid fever
- putridity