| 1. picking up seed
1) of birds, esp. of the crow or daw that picks up grain in fields 2. metaph. 1) lounging about the market place and picking up a substance by whatever may chance to fall from the loads of merchandise 2) hence, beggarly, abject, vile, (a parasite) 3) getting a living by flattery and bufferoonery 4) an empty talker, babbler |