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plucker

  • a word derived from pluck.

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As a fan of films by Francis Ford Coppola and Ingmar Bergman, Hooper seems surprised that he's turned out to be such a plucker of heart strings.

From Seattle Times Dec. 21, 2012

A onetime Philadelphia chicken plucker, Chubby threw his tubby hips into high gear, and issued an invitation: "C'mon, baby, let's do the twist!"

From Time Magazine Archive

He laid an egg as a chicken plucker.

From Time Magazine Archive

His mother, Mrs. Sophie Lenefsky, is an accomplished chicken plucker who has feathered her nest over the years by hard work in a chicken market.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such a schoolemaister is imprisonment, & plucker downe of loftie courages.

From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First by Holinshed, Raphael