Pluck

Verb

 * 1)  To pull something sharply; to pull something out
 * She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.
 * 1) *1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
 * The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined. She held the flower to her face with a long-drawn inhalation, then went up the steps, crossed the piazza, opened the door without knocking, and entered the house with the air of one thoroughly at home.
 * 1)  To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
 * Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.
 * 1)  To remove feathers from a bird.
 * 2)  To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
 * ''The horny highwayman plucked his victims to their underwear, or attractive ones all the way
 * 1)  To play a string instrument pizzicato
 * ''Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break
 * 1)  To pull or twitch sharply

Derived terms

 * plucker
 * plucking
 * pluck up

Noun

 * 1) An instance of plucking
 * ''Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck
 * 1) The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
 * 2) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
 * He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.

Derived terms

 * plucky

Adjectives for Pluck
invincible; gallant; amazing; redoubtable; unusual; gigantic; great; noticeable.

Adverbs for Pluck
petulantly; surreptitiously;  courageously; agitatedly; idiotically; industriously; thievishly; haphazardly.

Thesaurus
accumulate, amass, assemble, avulse, backbone, bare, bleed, bleed white, bob, boldness, bottle, bottom, bravery, bring in, bring together, bust, catch at, chutzpah, collect, courage, crop, crop herbs, cull, cut, cut out, dauntlessness, denudate, denude, deplume, deracinate, despoil, determination, dig, dig out, dig up, disentangle, displume, divest, drain, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, dry, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excise, exhaust, expose, exsect, extract, extricate, fail, flay, fleece, flick, flip, flirt, flounce, flunk, flunk out, fortitude, gameness, gather, gather in, get in, get out, get together, glean, gouge out, grab, grabble, grit, grub, grub up, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, hardiness, harvest, hay, heart, heart of oak, hitch, impoverish, intestinal fortitude, intrepidity, jerk, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, lay bare, lay open, mettle, mettlesomeness, milk, mine, mow, moxie, nerve, nut, pick, pick clean, pick out, pick up, pith, pluck out, pluck up, pluckiness, plunk, pull, pull out, pull up, quarry, rake out, rake up, reap, reap and carry, remove, resolution, resolve, rip out, root out, root up, round up, sand, scare up, scrape together, scrape up, shear, skin, snake, snatch, spirit, spunk, spunkiness, stamina, start, steadfastness, stout heart, stoutness, strip, strip bare, strum, sturdiness, suck dry, sudden pull, sweep the strings, take out, take up, tear out, thrum, toughness, true grit, twang, tweak, twitch, uncloak, uncover, unearth, unravel, unsheathe, unveil, uproot, vellicate, wash out, weed out, withdraw, wrench, wrest out, yank, yerk

Etymology
From pluccian:, ploccian:, from, ultimately from Latin pilare:, from pilus:. Cognate with German pflücken:, Dutch plukken:, Icelandish plokka:, plukka:, Danish plukke:, Swedish plocka:.

Noun sense of "heart, liver, and lights of an animal" comes from it being plucked out of the carcas after the animal is killed; the sense of "fortitude, boldness" derives from this meanining, originally being a boxing slang denoting a prize-ring, with semantic development from "heart", the symbol of courage, to "fortitude, boldness".

Verb

 * Danish: plukke
 * Dutch:, grabbelen, grijpen, rukken
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Hungarian: kitép, kiszakít


 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Polish: wyszarpnąć
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: выдёргивать


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian: penget


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: brzdęknąć
 * Spanish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: rupfen
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: oskubać
 * Portuguese: depenar
 * Russian: ощипывать
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch: kaalplukken, pluimen
 * French: voler


 * Russian:


 * : ubirati (glasba/music), skubsti

Noun

 * Dutch: pluk, gepluk, plukken


 * Dutch: ingewanden, slachtafval
 * Hungarian: belsőség
 * Italian: ,


 * Polish: podroby
 * Russian: потроха
 * Serbo-Croatian: utroba, drob


 * Catalan: perseverància
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: persévérence


 * Hungarian:
 * Polish: hart ducha, odwaga
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * : (du) cœur, plumaison

Anagrams

 * UK plc