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Webster 1913 Edition
Pica
Pi′ca
,Noun.
[L.
pica
a pie, magpie; in sense 3 prob. named from some resemblance to the colors of the magpie. Cf. Pie
magpie.] 1.
(Zool.)
The genus that includes the magpies.
2.
(Med.)
A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, such as clay, chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
Syn. – allotriophagy.
4.
(Print.)
A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.
☞
This line is printed in pica
☞ Pica is twice the size of nonpareil, and is used as a standard of measurement in casting leads, cutting rules, etc., and also as a standard by which to designate several larger kinds of type, as double pica, two-line pica, four-line pica, and the like.
Small pica
(Print.)
, a size of type next larger than long primer, and smaller than pica.
☞
This line is printed in small pica
Webster 1828 Edition
Pica
PI'CA
,Noun.
1.
In medicine, a vitiated appetite which makes the patient crave what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, &c.2.
A printing type of a large size; probably named from litera picata, a great black letter at the beginning of some new order in the liturgy; hence,3.
Pica, pye or pie,formerly an ordinary, a table or directory for devotional services; also, an alphabetical catalogue of names and things in rolls and records.Pica marina, the sea-pye, ostralegus, or oyster-catcher; an aquatic fowl of the genus Haematopus. This fowl feeds on oysters, limpets and marine insects.
Definition 2024
piča
piča
Czech
Alternative forms
Noun
piča f
- (vulgar) ****, pussy (female genitalia)
- (vulgar, pejorative) bitch (despisable woman)
- Ona je piča! - She's a bitch.
- (vulgar) ****, bitch (something difficult)
- (vulgar) the ****, **** (as an intensifier, an expression of displeasure)
- Jdi do piče / piči! - **** off!
- Je to na piču. - It sucks.
Declension
Declension of piča
Derived terms
Synonyms
- See also vagína#Synonyms
Slovak
Noun
piča f (genitive singular piče, nominative plural piče, declension pattern of ulica)
- (vulgar) ****, pussy (female genitalia)
- Choď do piče! — **** you! (literally "Go into a ****!")
- Je to na piču. — It sucks / It's worth a ****.
- Ona je piča! — She's a **** / She's a bitch.
- Je to v piči. — It's fucked up. (lit. "It's in a ****")
- Drž piču! — Shut the **** up! (lit. "Hold the ****!")
- Do piče! — Holy ****! (lit. "Into the ****!")