1. Pluck or pull at with the fingers
   - pluck at, pull at 
2. Eat like a bird
   "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
   - peck at, peck 
3. Express a negative opinion of
   - disparage, belittle

Derived forms: picked at, picks at, picking at

Type of: criticise [Brit], criticize, eat, knock, pick apart, pull

• black sheep
• black snakeroot
• black spleenwort
• black spot
• black spruce
• black squirrel
• black stork
• black stump
• black sumac
• black swan
• Black Tai
• black tea
• black tongue
• black tree fern
• black turnstone
• Black Vernacular
• Black Vernacular English
• black vomit
• black vulture
• black walnut
• black walnut tree
• black wattle
• black weevil
• black whale
• black widow