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to pickin'

9.9

To take small things like fruit or lint with your fingers

verb
/ˈpɪkɪn/

Informal

: recoger

The children spent the afternoon pickin' berries along the path.

Now we're going to be bringing Boomer in to pick the base slime to add the fishbowl beads he picked.

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Examples

And so I'm dressed in that get up because a lot of the school moms are recognizing me picking up trash on the street in Seattle.
Oh, sorry, He's picking me some clothes to buy.
I think we need to figure out who's picking it and mandate and move on.
Well, she's just picking along happily.
He was out in the garden, pickin' fresh tomatoes for dinner.
She loves pickin' wildflowers during her hikes in the countryside.

Synonyms

to scoop up

vsto pickin'

47 2.8

To lift or pick up something quickly with your hand

is slower and done without a sweeping lifting motion

to pick off

vsto pickin'

9 4.3

Pull things away one at a time

is more informal and covers broad gathering rather than sharp single removals

to handpick

vsto pickin'

4 3.7

Choose the best items by hand one by one

is more informal and means general gathering rather than careful choice

Idioms

pickin' and grinnin'

Informal

9.9

People play music and smile together in a happy, relaxed way

How Much

to strip

42 2.7

to harvest

84 1.6

to gather

∞ 1.0

to pickin'

Informal

9.9

to pick

241 1.4

to pluck

77 3.5

Surface Forms

pickin' infinitive

picked past

picked past participle

pickin' present participle

pickin's third person singular

Morphology

pickin' = picking (transparent) = pick + ing

The target is just a clipped informal spelling of 'picking', so the morphological relation is directly recoverable.

Etymology

The word pickin' is a casual form of the verb pick, which means 'to take or gather small things by hand', like picking berries or tomatoes. So pickin' can also mean gathering or removing small items by hand.