From Middle High German pflocken, pflucken, pflücken, from Old High German phlockōn, *phlucken, from Proto-West Germanic *plukkōn, from Proto-Germanic *plukkōną, likely from Vulgar Latin *pilūc(i)cāre, derived ultimately from Latin pilāre (“remove hair”). Compare Luxembourgish plécken, Hunsrik plicke, Rhine Franconian plicke, plocke, Dutch plukken, English pluck, French éplucher, Italian piluccare. Within High German the word was restricted to Central German and northernmost Upper German.

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