Meanings
- uncountableThe act of plucking.
Jasper […] is playing guitar — what he terms the "pluckage" for a song he is recording on Garage Band. He adds drums, other percussion, and synthesizer. Next he records his voice, improvising funny lyrics.
2018, David Sheff, Beautiful Boy1 more example
If no substitute for a goose-quill had been discovered, it is evident that the world could not have maintained a tithe of its present correspondence, unless geese and other fowls had been bred in extraordinary numbers for the pluckage of their wings.
1872, Charles Dickens, All the Year RoundSynonyms: plucking
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe act of plucking.
Origin
Cite this entry
pluckage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pluckage
“pluckage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pluckage. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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