Etymology

picker

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Today it means: A worker responsible for picking or retrieving ordered items, etc. Full definition →

Middle English pikere
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picker · noun1

  1. Middle English · inherited frompikere
  2. English todaypicker

From Middle English pikere, pykare, equivalent to pick + -er.

Picker · proper noun2

  1. Yiddish · derived fromפּיקן“to peck”
  2. Dutch · borrowed fromPicker
  3. German · borrowed fromPicker
  4. English todayPicker

Various origins: * From picker, an English occupational surname for someone who used a pick. * Borrowed from German Picker, an occupational surname for someone who used a pickaxe. * Borrowed from Dutch Picker, an occupational surname for a stonemason or for a reaper or mower. * Jewish Ashkenazi nickname for a glutton, from Yiddish פּיקן (pikn, “to peck”).

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