pioctha

Irish

Participle

pioctha

1. past participle of pioc (“to pick”)

Adjective

pioctha

1. spruce (smart and elegant), spruced up, dapper
2. neat, tidy

   pioctha bearrtha ― spick-and-span

   pioctha pointeáilte ― neat as a pin

Synonyms

• (spruce, dapper): pointeáilte
• (neat, tidy): néata, slachtmhar

Derived terms

• pioctha péacach (“dressed up; fresh as a daisy”)
• pioctha sciúrtha (“immaculate in appearance”)
• piocthacht

Noun

pioctha

1. genitive singular of piocadh

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
pioctha	phioctha	bpioctha
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “piocṫa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pioctha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN