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  • pick house
    [etym. uncertain, but cf. OED picket post driven into ground and pack house a build-ing for storage] n. a shelter
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  • picker
    n. 1. [cf. OED pick over select the best from a group] a scavenger; a person who rummages through refuse
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  • pickcheely
    (Nassau); pickereely (Andros); pickery (San Sal.) [DJE petchary, Haitian pipirit HCEFD and Car. Sp, pitirre idem; from its call "pecheery",
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  • pick chance
    v. phr. to select an opportune moment: 1950 The captain steadied my wife while she "picked chance" to step down
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  • pickaninny, pickin, pickny
    [Atlantic; OED, W3 pickaninny Negro child, SA piccanin idem; from Port. pequenino very little (one), from pequeno little + -ino
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  • pick-and-choose
    [Atlantic; OED, v. phr. to select fastidiously)] adj. 1. finnicky; hard to please: When people is pick-and-choose, they a bit
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  • pick (3)
    v. 1. [Car.; Brit. dial. Mid idem EDD; US dial, to gather (eggs) ADD] to gather, collect: pick shells; cf.
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  • pick (2)
    v. 1. [cf. OED pick (of a bird) to peck; (of an insect) to puncture obs. →6451 to bite; to
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  • pick
    n. [US Black pick a comb used by Black people for natural and Afro hair styles (Claerbaut); cf. Brit. dial.
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  • piazza
    /piyáza/ [Atlantic; OED, now rare; US dial. ADD] n. the roofed verandah of the older-style Bahamian house, sometimes enclosed with
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