plucking

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/ˈplʌkɪŋ/

noun 3

Collocations

ADJ.

amusing, busy, half, lower

VERB + PLUCKING

am, cause, consists, employed, started, tack, tried

PLUCKING + NOUN

armpit, bunches, chicken, eyebrows, feathers, fruit, goose, hair

PREP.

from, in, in, with, with

ADV.

only, simply

Definitions

noun

An act in which something is plucked.

Dirty Projectors builds elaborate “glitch operas” with stark pluckings of strings […].

A fragment of something obtained by plucking.

Yield per acre and moisture content of grass pluckings taken at 14- or 28-day intervals during the seasons of 1933 and 1934

The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.

Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]

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Idioms & Phrases

the old woman is plucking her goose

It is snowing.

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Dirty Projectors builds elaborate “glitch operas” with stark pluckings of strings […].

Wiktionary

Yield per acre and moisture content of grass pluckings taken at 14- or 28-day intervals during the seasons of 1933 and 1934

Wiktionary

Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]

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She spent over half an hour plucking her eyebrows!

Tatoeba · #548770

Mary started plucking her eyebrows when she was twelve years old.

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Tom is plucking a chicken.

Tatoeba · #1662730

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