Definition of Peck

Verb: peck  pek

  1. Hit lightly with a picking motion
    - pick, beak
     
  2. Eat by pecking at, like a bird
    - pick up
     
  3. Kiss lightly
    - smack
     
  4. Eat like a bird
    "The anorexic girl just pecks at her food";
    - pick at, peck at
     
  5. Bother persistently with trivial complaints
    "She pecks her husband all day long";
    - nag, hen-peck
Noun: peck  pek
  1. (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
     
  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

See also:
pechs
pecked

Anagrams containing the word peck

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