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plucked

plucked

3.3
A bird or animal with its feathers removed before cooking
  • adjective
  • /plʌkt/
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  • 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
3.3
unplucked
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.