Found 3 items, similar to peck.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: peck
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: peck
peck
n 1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
“a batch of letters”;
“a deal of trouble”;
“a lot of
money”;
“he made a mint on the stock market”;
“it must
have cost plenty” [syn:
batch,
deal,
flock,
good deal
,
great deal,
hatful,
heap,
lot,
mass,
mess,
mickle,
mint,
muckle,
pile,
plenty,
pot,
quite a little
,
raft,
sight,
slew,
spate,
stack,
tidy sum
,
wad,
whole lot,
whole slew]
2: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to
2 gallons
3: a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605
cubic inches
v 1: hit lightly with a picking motion [syn:
pick,
beak]
2: eat by pecking at, like a bird [syn:
pick up]
3: kiss lightly [syn:
smack]
4: eat like a bird;
“The anorexic girl just picks at her food”
[syn:
pick at,
peck at]
5: bother persistently with trivial complaints;
“She nags her
husband all day long” [syn:
nag,
hen-peck]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Peck
Peck
\Peck\, v. i.
1. To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed
instrument. --Carew.
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2. To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
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[The hen] went pecking by his side. --Dryden.
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To peck at, to attack with petty and repeated blows; to
carp at; to nag; to tease.
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Peck
\Peck\, n.
A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a
pointed instrument.
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Peck
\Peck\, n. [Perh. akin to pack; or, orig., an indefinite
quantity, and fr. peck, v. (below): cf. also F. picotin a
peak.]
1. The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight
quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
“A peck of provender.”
--Shak.
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2. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
“A peck of
uncertainties and doubts.” --Milton.
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Peck
\Peck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Pecked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pecking.] [See
Pick, v.]
1. To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a
bird pecks a tree.
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2. Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with
a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc.,
with repeated quick movements.
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3. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak;
to bite; to eat; -- often with up. --Addison.
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This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas. --Shak.
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4. To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed
instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
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