English

U-pick

From u (“an abbreviation of you”) + pick.

A compound of u ‘an abbreviation of you’ + pick

Middle English v

English u

Proto-Indo-European *bew-

Proto-Germanic *pikkōną ‘to pick’

Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn ‘to peck’

Old English *piccian

Middle English piken ‘to pick at’

English pick

Today it means

adj Of a farm operation, in which a customer can harvest the produce they wish to purchase.

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