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— English words —
  • pluck v. (Transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out.
  • pluck v. (Transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
  • pluck v. (Transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
  • pluck v. (Transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
  • pluck v. (Transitive, now rare) To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).
  • pluck v. (Transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
  • pluck v. (Intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
  • pluck v. (UK, university slang, transitive, obsolete) To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.
  • pluck v. Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
  • pluck n. An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
  • pluck n. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
  • pluck n. (Informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
  • pluck n. (AAVE, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.
— English words, defined in Dutch —
  • pluck w. Overgankelijk plukken, wegplukken (Veren, haren, e.d.).
  • pluck w. (Figuurlijk) plukken, snel pakken, halen.
  • pluck w. (Figuurlijk) iemand snel van een bepaalde plek verwijderen.
  • pluck w. Overgankelijk (informeel) beroven.
  • pluck w. Onovergankelijk trekken aan iemands mouw.
  • pluck w. Overgankelijk (muziekinstrument) op een pizzicato ("plukkende") manier bespelen.
  • pluck w. (VK) (verouderd) in got ~ed: zakken (voor een examen, toets).
  • pluck n. Het plukken, de pluk.
  • pluck n. Orgaanvlees, organen, zoals hart, longen en de slokdarm, die uit het geslachte dier verwijderd (‘plucked’) worden.
  • pluck n. (Figuurlijk) lef, branie.
  • pluck n. (VS) (spreektaal) goedkope wijn.
— English words, defined in French —
  • pluck n. Abats (triperie) d’un animal.
  • pluck n. (Rare au pluriel) Courage, cran.
  • pluck v. Pincer.
  • pluck v. Plumer.
  • pluck v. (Sens figuré) Voler.
— English words, defined in Spanish —
  • pluck v. Desplumar.
  • pluck v. Puntear.
  • pluck v. Arrancar, extraer.
  • pluck s. Coraje, agallas.
  • pluck s. Tirón.
82 English words from 13 English definitions

AAVE after and animals bedrock bird by␣means␣of Cheap cheat degree erosion etc examination fail feathers figurative for fortitude freezing from gently glacier gradual guitar Guts heart individual Informal instance instrument Intransitive lungs means music nerve now obsolete oesophagus Of␣a often out particular persistence pieces pizzicato place play plucking pull pulling quickly rare reject remove removed rob sharply single situation slang slaughtered someone something steal string string␣instrument student swindle take thawing The they through trachea transitive transport twitch uncountable university violin wine with

17 English words from 21 foreign definitions

animal Courage cran die dier een examen got hart het Pincer pizzicato plucked Plumer Rare Sens van

52 foreign words from 21 foreign definitions

aan Abats agallas Arrancar bepaalde beroven bespelen branie Coraje extraer figuré Figuurlijk halen haren iemand iemands informeel lef longen manier mouw muziekinstrument Onovergankelijk organen Overgankelijk pakken plek pluk plukken plukkende pluriel Puntear Sens␣figuré slokdarm snel spreektaal Tirón toets trekken trekken␣aan triperie uit Veren verouderd verwijderd verwijderen Voler voor wijn worden zakken zoals

39 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

pluck'd plucks pluckt plucky plucked pluckee plucker pluck␣up pluckees pluckers pluckest plucketh pluckier pluckily plucking Pluckley plucks␣up pluckable plucked␣up pluckiest pluckings pluckless pluckiness plucking␣up pluckedness Plücker␣tube Plücker␣tubes plucking␣post Plücker␣matrix plucking␣posts plucklessness Plücker␣matrices Plücker␣relation Plücker␣embedding Plücker␣relations Plücker␣coordinate Plücker␣embeddings Plücker␣coordinates pluck␣up␣one's␣courage

12 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

unplucky upplucks misplucks unplucked upplucked hairplucks misplucked overplucks upplucking misplucking overplucked overplucking

6 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

uppluck mispluck hairpluck overpluck crow␣to␣pluck crows␣to␣pluck

6 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Luc. luck Luck PLU uck Uck

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Culp ulp ULP

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

UK␣plc

10 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

lick␣up lockup lock-up lock␣up pluck'd plucks pluckt plucky puckle uplock

8 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Culp Kulp luck Luck pclk puck Puck pulk

12 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

cluck Cluck gluck Gluck Kluck phuck plack pleck Pleck plunk Plunk pruck

4 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

luck Luck puck Puck


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