Definition of Peck
Verb: peck pek
- Hit lightly with a picking motion
- pick, beak
- Eat by pecking at, like a bird
- pick up
- Kiss lightly
- smack
- Eat like a bird
"The anorexic girl just pecks at her food";
- pick at, peck at
- Bother persistently with trivial complaints
"She pecks her husband all day long";
- nag, hen-peck
- (often followed by 'of') a large number, amount or extent
"a peck of letters";
- batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, bunch
- A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
- A United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
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