Pick

• As an English, Dutch, and German surname, related to pickaxe.
• As a German surname, from Low German pick (“pitch”), itself ultimately from Latin pix.
• As an English surname, from pike (“kind of fish”).

Pick (plural Picks)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Pick is the 9451^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3442 individuals. Pick is most common among White (89.4%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Pick”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈb̥iɡ̥ː/
• Hyphenation: Pick
• Homophones: pick, Pik

Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pik (“pitch, tar, wood resin”), from Latin pix (“pitch, tar”). Doublet of Pech.

Pick m (plural Pick, diminutive Pickerl)

1. glue

• pickn

Probably from French pique (“grudge, spite”), from French piquer (“to prick, to sting; to be offended”).

Pick m (plural Pick)

1. grudge, resentment

• an Pick auf jemånd håbn

Pick m (strong, genitive Pickes or Picks, plural Picke) (but hardly likely in the plural)

1. alternative form of Pik (“shrewdness, scoff, wont to be mean”)

Denominal of picken in the sense “to adhere”.

Pick m (strong, genitive Pickes or Picks, plural Picks)

1. (Austria, colloquial) glue
   • 2018, Wolf Haas, Junger Mann, Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe:

     Aber dann haute ich den Gummifleck doch viel zu früh drauf, also noch bevor der Pick ganz hart war.

     But then I slung the rubber stain on too early, that is before the glue was hard.

Borrowed from English pick.

Pick m (strong, genitive Picks, plural Picks)

1. (sports) a player picked for an event, pick