pluck

Speech parts

1. pluck - Noun

2. pluck - Verb

Meaning

To pull; to draw.

Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.

To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.

To reject at an examination for degrees.

To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.

The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.

The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.

Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.

The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.

The lyrie.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fleece pick pull hook tear plume soak cull surcharge tweak hustle overcharge plunk deplume pluckiness
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Antonyms

rabbit fear connect deliver push combine
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Hypernyms

garner chisel draw strip collect pull

Hyponyms

berry rack mushroom squeeze extort wring

Phrases with the word

pluck up one's courage pluck out pluck up the courage

Derivatives

plucked plucking

Examples

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. James A. Garfield

'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. William Wordsworth

Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time. Christina Rossetti

Kindness can pluck the whiskers of a lion. Moroccan Proverb

he tried to pluck under her/his eyebrow, but blinded the eye. Persian Proverb

Pluck the magpie, and don't make her scream. Italian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

PLTL PLU Plucinski pluck at pluck out pluck up