peck has definitions from the field of food
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[ verb ] hit lightly with a picking motion

Synonyms

beak pick

Used in print

(Genevieve Holden, Deadlier Than the Male....)

She was a large woman with a frizzled gray poodle cut and a pencil clamped like a_bit between her teeth while she hunted and pecked on an old typewriter .

Related terms

strike beak

2
[ verb ] (food) eat by pecking at; of birds

Synonyms

pick_up

Used in print

(San Francisco Chronicle,...)

`` The news of their experiments reach the farmers who , forgetting that birds are the_most efficient natural enemies of insects and rodents , are encouraged to try to get_rid_of all birds that occasionally peck their grapes or their blueberries '' , Buchheister told the delegates .

Related terms

eat beak

3
[ verb ] bother persistently with trivial complaints

Synonyms

nag hen-peck

Examples

"She nags her husband all day long"

Related terms

complain scold

4
[ verb ] (food) eat like a bird

Synonyms

peck_at pick_at

Examples

"The anorexic girl just picks at her food"

Related terms

eat

5
[ noun ] a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
6
[ noun ] (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

Examples

: "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"

7
[ verb ] kiss lightly

Synonyms

smack

Related terms

kiss smack

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 795
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[ noun ] a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
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