Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the long stiff hairs removed: said of the pelt of a fur-seal.
- Endowed with pluck or courage: with a qualifying adjective.
Wiktionary
- v. simple past tense and past participle of pluck.
- adj. Having had these items removed by plucking.
- adj. Played by plucking.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having courage and spirit.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum
- adj. having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl
Examples
“Freakonomics or a title plucked from the bestseller's list.”
“I understand that the first episode in the new season is not actually kind of a plucked from the crowd person, but it's actually a celebrity.”
“But if your 'story' is correct; that there is a huge supply of unskilled peasants who could be plucked from the farm and put behind idiot-proof machines then there should be no middle class.”
Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Keeping people from starving to death is a fine cause to rally behind, some % savings rate plucked from a hat is not.”
Trade Deficit, Saving, and Tax Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“But if your 'story' is correct; that there is a huge supply of unskilled peasants who could be plucked from the farm and put behind idiot-proof machines then there should be no middle class”
Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The next moment the superintendent had been plucked from the doorway raving about rights under the law, and the girls were deserting their machines.”
“Much to the despair of the Sisters, the brand plucked from the burning went back to the burning.”
“How often is "the rose plucked from the forehead of a virtuous love to plant a blister there!”
“Time will tell if these Twitter-based shows will have staying power, but regardless, it's always fun to guess who'll be plucked from the ether next.”
The Washington Post: The media gets meta with tweets-to-TV programming
“For some of the 8,595 lost souls, their fate was decided at "The Gauntlet" (Mile 17.5) or "Beat the Bridge" (Mile 20), where runners are plucked from the course if they fall below a 14-minutes-per-mile pace.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘plucked’.
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Jane Eyre
abigail, sanguine, chancel, bourne, peremptorily, parley, unwonted, fagging, convolvuli, tarry, insuperable, execrations and 190 more...
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Dictation words
Dictation Word list
suddenly, plumber, transport, discipline, leaking, stethoscope, railway, fiercely, aeroplane, travelling, electrician, thieves and 49 more...
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Moose Jaw words
So, I'm writing a story set in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. These are words I either use a lot, or new words I am proud of having worked into my story.
amoore5272 Expelled for failing examinations. Found in Jane Eyre Chapter 10 in reference to John Reed. Oct 20, 2009