pickedness
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editpickedness (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The state of being sharpened or pointed.
- (obsolete) fineness; spruceness; smartness
- 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber
- Too much pickedness is not manly.
- 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber
References
edit- “pickedness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.