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– originprobably from English dialect chuck ‘chicken’. chooseverb (past chose; past part. chosen) 1 pick someone or something out as being the best of two or more alternatives. 2 decide on a course of action: the men chose to ignore his orders. – originOld English. choosyadjective (choosier, choosiest) informal
Word Origin adjective late Middle English: from Latin compact-‘closely put together, joined’, from the verb compingere, from com-‘together’ + pangere ‘fasten’. See compact in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary See compact in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
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