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- Dictionarypluck/plʌk/
verb
- 1. take hold of (something) and quickly remove it from its place: "she plucked a blade of grass" Similar
- 2. quickly or suddenly remove someone from a dangerous or unpleasant situation: "the baby was plucked from a grim orphanage"
noun
- 1. spirited and determined courage: "it must have taken a lot of pluck to walk along a path marked ‘Danger’"
- 2. the heart, liver, and lungs of an animal as food.
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to pull something, especially with a sudden movement, in order to remove it: Caged birds sometimes pluck out their breast feathers. He plucked the letter from/out of my hand, and ran off with it. Do you pluck your eyebrows (= remove some of the hairs from them to give them a better shape)? [ T ]
transitive verb. 1. : to pull or pick off or out. 2. a. : to remove something (such as hairs) from by or as if by plucking. pluck one's eyebrows. b. : rob, fleece. 3. : to move, remove, or separate forcibly or abruptly. plucked the child from the middle of the street. 4. a. : to pick, pull, or grasp at. b.
to pull something, especially with a sudden movement, in order to remove it: Caged birds sometimes pluck out their breast feathers. He plucked the letter from/out of my hand, and ran off with it. Do you pluck your eyebrows (= remove some of the hairs from them to give them a better shape)? [ T ]
n. 1. The act or an instance of plucking. 2. Resourceful courage and daring in the face of difficulties; spirit. 3. The heart, liver, windpipe, and lungs of a slaughtered animal. [Middle English plukken, from Old English pluccian, probably from Vulgar Latin *piluccāre, ultimately from Latin pilāre, from pilus, hair .] pluck′er n.
9 meanings: 1. to pull off (feathers, fruit, etc) from (a fowl, tree, etc) 2. to pull or tug 3. archaic to pull (something).... Click for more definitions.
Definition of pluck verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
adjective. of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum. synonyms: pizzicato. (of instruments in the violin family) to be plucked with the finger. see more. adjective. having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl. “a plucked chicken”.
