peck
see also: Peck
Pronunciation
Peck
Proper noun
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see also: Peck
Pronunciation
- IPA: /pɛk/
peck (pecks, present participle pecking; past and past participle pecked)
- (ambitransitive) To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
- The birds pecked at their food.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Chapter 2
- The rooster had been known to fly on her shoulder and peck her neck, so that now she carried a stick or took one of the children with her when she went to feed the fowls.
- (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
- to peck a hole in a tree
- To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
- To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
- c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene ii]:
- This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas.
- 1713 September 14, letter to Joseph Addison, The Guardian, issue 160.
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- To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
- He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.
- To type by searching for each key individually.
- (rare) To type in general.
- To kiss briefly.
- 1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Chapter 1; 1998 ed., Scholastic Press, ISBN 0-590-35340-3, p. 2
- At half past eight, Mr. Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the walls.
- 1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Chapter 1; 1998 ed., Scholastic Press, ISBN 0-590-35340-3, p. 2
- German: die Tastatur im Einfingersuchsystem bedienen, mit dem Adlersuchsystem schreiben
- French: bécoter
- German: einen flüchtigen Kuss geben, flüchtig küssen
- Russian: чмо́кать
- Spanish: bicar
peck (plural pecks)
- An act of striking with a beak.
- A small kiss.
- German: Schnabelhieb
- Spanish: picada
- French: bécot, bisou
- German: Küsschen, Bussi, flüchtiger Kuss
- Portuguese: beijoca, bitoca, beijinho
- Russian: чмок
- Spanish: bico
peck (plural pecks)
- One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
- They picked a peck of wheat.
- A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
- She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten.
- 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce:
- a peck of uncertainties and doubts
- German: Viertelscheffel
- Russian: пек
peck (pecks, present participle pecking; past and past participle pecked)
- (regional) To throw.
- To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
- 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 97:
- Anyhow, one of them fell, another one pecked badly, and Jerry disengaged himself from the group to scuttle up the short strip of meadow to win by a length.
- 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 97:
peck (uncountable)
Nounpeck (plural pecks)
- Misspelling of pec
Peck
Proper noun
- Surname
- A city in Idaho.
- A village in Michigan.
- A town in Wisconsin.
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