PICADO

adj. minced, ground; vexed

n. dive

v. prick; pique; goad, nibble; jab; mince, chop; pound; harass

v. bridle, get one's back up

adj. stung, pricked with a stinger

v. hack, chop; pick; sting, bite; hash, mince; jab; pique; point; prick, prickle

A guitar playing technique. Playing scale passages by alternating the index and middle fingers. Normally executed apoyando (with rest strokes)..

= choppy [choppier -comp., chopiest -sup.], chopped, ground, minced, miffed.
Ex: So far, Internet retailers have not been able to take the bread out of the mouths of the terrestrial booksellers, as had been feared, but the trading waters remain choppy.
Ex: Between 9 and 12 months, lumpy or chopped foods, such as vegetables, meats, or cottage cheese, may be introduced.
Ex: For red ink the usual colour was ground vermilion (i.e. red mercuric sulphide).
Ex: Ninety-one percent of cats tested prefer minced foods.
Ex: These are just superfluous rantings of miffed children.
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* caer en picado = plummet, swoop.
* caída en picado = plunge, nosedive, swoop.
* carne de cerdo picada = minced pork.
* carne de ternera picada = ground beef.
* carne de vaca picada = ground beef.
* carne picada = ground meat, minced meat.
* descenso en picado = swoop.
* ternera picada = minced beef.

= mince, keyboard, smart, chop up, itch.
Ex: A rotary machine invented in Holland in the late seventeenth century did not pound but minced the rags into pulp with revolving knives.
Ex: One use of the Mouse is in free-hand drawing, but it also promises to improve drastically the way in which data can be manipulated once it has been keyboarded into a file.
Ex: The Soviet hosts, meanwhile, still smarting over myriad implications of inferiority, found themselves in the novel position of being expected to instruct and enlighten Westerners.
Ex: The writer bemoans record studios' tendency to chop up and fiddle with opera performances.
Ex: Until your skin gets use to it, it will itch but non-scented talcum powder will help, just make sure you don't inhale any of that shit.
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* que pica = itchy [itchier -comp., itchiest -sup.].