nutpick

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sharp tool used for digging the edible portion out of a nut. US
动词 v.
  1. To cherry-pick poor representatives of a viewpoint (i.e., from Internet postings) in order to disparage it. Internet
    — Nutpicking has gotten easy over the last few years–just check out the Twitter feeds of Teanderthal Members of Congress.

词形变化

nutpicks plural nut pick alternative nutpicks present,singular,third-person nutpicking participle,present nutpicked participle,past nutpicked past

词源

词源 1
From nut + pick.
词源 2
Blend of nut + nitpick; see nut (“crazy person”). Coined by a commenter in 2006 and popularized by Kevin Drum.
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