plucking

About 0.63 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of pluck
2. noun An act in which something is plucked.
3. noun A fragment of something obtained by plucking.
4. noun The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.

Similar words

tear pull pull off plunk tweak hustle pick off cull deplume deplumate

Often followed by

the at a out of up and it them

Word family

pluck plucked plucker pluckers plucks