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Pick at

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Verb
  1. 1
    To touch, grab, handle, or pull tentatively or gingerly, using a utensil or one's fingers. idiomatic, transitive

    "Mr Vholes remained immovable, except that he secretly picked at one of the red pimples on his yellow face with his black glove."

  2. 2
    express a negative opinion of wordnet
  3. 3
    To touch, grab, handle, or pull tentatively or gingerly, using a utensil or one's fingers.; Synonym of peck at. idiomatic, transitive

    "Picking at a salad in a conference room at Google’s headquarters here, Ms. Mayer says she is vexed by how some perceive her."

  4. 4
    eat like a bird wordnet
  5. 5
    To pick on or repeatedly criticize (someone). idiomatic, transitive

    ""[N]oise and disrespect of no kind ain't pleasin' to him. His own folks behave becomin', but strangers go and act as they like. . . . Then we are picked at for their doin's.""

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  1. 6
    pluck or pull at with the fingers wordnet

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