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- [pek]
- /pɛk/
- /pek/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [pek]
- /pɛk/
Definitions of peck word
- noun peck Annie Smith, 1850–1935, U.S. mountain climber. 1
- noun peck Gregory, 1916–2003, U.S. actor. 1
- verb with object peck to strike or indent with the beak, as a bird does, or with some pointed instrument, especially with quick, repeated movements. 1
- verb with object peck to make (a hole, puncture, etc.) by such strokes; pierce. 1
- verb with object peck to take (food) bit by bit, with or as with the beak. 1
- verb without object peck to make strokes with the beak or a pointed instrument. 1
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Origin of peck
First appearance:
before 1250 One of the 11% oldest English words
1250-1300; Middle English pek < Old French < ?
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Peck
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
peck popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 87% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
peck usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for peck
noun peck
- all kinds of — You can use all kinds of to emphasize that there are a great number and variety of particular things or people.
- amount — The amount of something is how much there is, or how much you have, need, or get.
- aplenty — If you have something aplenty, you have a lot of it.
- butterflies — tremors in the stomach region due to nervousness
- butterfly — A butterfly is an insect with large colourful wings and a thin body.
verb peck
- buss — A buss is a kiss.
- carp — A carp is a kind of fish that lives in lakes and rivers.
- dab — DAB is the transmission of digital stereo over conventional radio channels. DAB is an abbreviation for 'digital audio broadcasting'.
- eat like a bird — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- find fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
adj peck
- countless — Countless means very many.
- heaper — a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile: a heap of stones.
- innumerous — very numerous.
adjective peck
- zillion — an extremely large, indeterminate number.
Top questions with peck
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