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to plock

to plock

9.9
To pick small things off with your fingers, like fruit or threads
  • verb
  • Archaic
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  • Children love to plock small flowers from the garden in spring.

Examples

  • Can you plock some berries for me?

  • They plock ripe berries from the bush to make jam every summer.

  • She carefully plocked the loose threads from her sweater before leaving the house.

  • She plocked the ripe apples from the tree.

  • They plock ripe berries from the bush to make jam every summer.

  • Children love to plock small flowers from the garden in spring.

  • Can you plock some fresh herbs for our salad?

Synonyms

to pluck
vsto plock
77 3.5

To pull something out quickly with the fingers

is used for taking items off especially fruit rather than only sharp pulls
to pick at
vsto plock
5 3.8

Pull at something with your fingers again and again, often nervously

means removing items deliberately rather than repeated nervous pulling
to pluck at
vsto plock
3 6.1

To pull lightly and repeatedly at something with your fingers

refers to removing items in a single action rather than light repeated tugs

How Forceful

to tear off
12 3.0
to pull
∞ 1.0
to plock
  • Archaic
9.9
to brush
133 1.6

Surface Forms

plock infinitive
plocked past
plocked past participle
plocking present participle
plocks third person singular

Etymology

Plock as a verb is like the common English word pluck, meaning 'to pull off' or 'to pick with your fingers', and it brings to mind taking berries or threads by hand. So to plock something is to pick or pull it off carefully with your fingers.