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pluck

გამოთქმა: /plʌk/

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Universal
  • 1spirited and determined courage: it must have taken a lot of pluck to walk along a path marked ‘Danger’
  • 2the heart, liver, and lungs of an animal as food.

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Universal
  • 1take hold of (something) and quickly remove it from its place:she plucked a blade of grass he plucked a tape from the shelf
  • catch hold of and pull quickly:she plucked his sleeve [no object]:brambles plucked at her jeans
  • pull the feathers from (a bird’s carcass) to prepare it for cooking: the turkeys are plucked and cleaned by machine
  • pull some of the hairs from (one’s eyebrows) to make them look neater: whether you pluck your eyebrows depends on your type of looks
  • Geology (of glacier ice) break off (pieces of rock) by mechanical force.
  • 2quickly or suddenly remove someone from a dangerous or unpleasant situation:the baby was plucked from a grim orphanage
  • 3sound (a musical instrument or its strings) with one’s finger or a plectrum: she picked up her guitar and plucked it idly

pluck up courage

plucker

noun
[usually in combination]:a goose-plucker

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