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Acts 17:18
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a seed picker (as the crow) that is (figuratively) a sponger loafer (specifically a gossip or trifler in talk)
1. picking up seed
a. of birds, esp. of the crow or daw that picks up grain in fields
2. metaph.
a. lounging about the market place and picking up a substance by whatever may chance to fall from the loads of merchandise
b. hence, beggarly, abject, vile, (a parasite)
c. getting a living by flattery and bufferoonery
d. an empty talker, babbler
of the New Testament 1889
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.