plucked

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plucked

/plʌkt/

Rhymes with -ʌkt

verb

participle, past simple past and past participle of pluck

adjective more plucked · most plucked

Having had the feathers, hair, etc. removed by plucking.
of the strings of an instrument Played by plucking.
UK, dated, slang Having courage and spirit; plucky. He could scarcely contain his admiration. "What a plucked un!" he muttered; "what a plucked un! No miss," he added, "you needn't fear. Fear, says I? You never feared nothink in your life. […]
US, slang Exposed, embarrassed, humiliated, or caught publicly.

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Closest in meaning: featherless, unfeathered, pizzicato, torture, collected, picked, zither, rescued, yanked, snatched, tweezed, extracted, pulled, detached, uprooted, dislodged

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@misc{plucked_2026,
  title = {plucked},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/plucked},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}