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plucked

plucked

2 3.3
A bird or animal with its feathers removed before cooking
  • adjective
  • /plʌkt/
: desplumado
  • The chicken was plucked and ready to be cooked for dinner.

Examples

  • She bought a plucked turkey from the market for the holiday feast.

  • He ordered the youth to travel to Hell itself and returned with three golden hairs freshly plucked from the devil's head.

  • It is a lamb eyeball, freshly plucked and boiled for safety and coated in chocolate.

  • Before cooking the duck, they plucked all its feathers.

Synonyms

featherless
vsplucked
1 4.1

An animal, often a bird, that does not have the soft outer covering

is caused by feathers being removed deliberately often for cooking

Antonyms

feathered
28 1.6

Covered or decorated with feathers

How Picked

plucked
2 3.3
unplucked
1 5.6

Surface Forms

plucked positive

Morphology

plucked = pluck (transparent) = pluck + ed

The adjectival meaning 'having had feathers removed' is a direct result of the verb 'pluck' + past-participle '-ed', so the relation is straightforward.

Etymology

Plucked also comes from the verb pluck, which means 'to pull out'. So a plucked bird or animal has had its feathers 'pulled out', usually to get it ready for cooking.