Peckname

• 1

  A surname.

• 2

  A place in the United States:

• 3

  A place in the United States:

• 4

  A place in the United States:

• 5

  A place in the United States:

peckverb詞源 1/pɛk/

• 1

  To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).

  • The birds pecked at their food.
  • The rooster had been known to fly on her shoulder and peck her neck, so that now she carried a stick or took one of the children with her when she went to feed the fowls.
• 2

  To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.

  • to peck a hole in a tree
• 3

  To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.

• 4

  To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.

  • This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas.
  • 1713 September 14, letter to Joseph Addison, The Guardian, issue 160. I HAVE laid a wager, with a friend of mine, about the pigeons that used to peck up the corn which belonged to the ants.
• 5

  To do something in small, intermittent pieces.

  • He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.
• 6

  To type by searching for each key individually.

• 7

  rareTo type in general.

• 8

  To kiss briefly.

  • At half past eight, Mr. Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the walls.

pecknoun詞源 1/pɛk/

• 1

  An act of striking with a beak.

• 2

  A small kiss.

pecknoun詞源 2/pɛk/

• 1

  One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; equal to approximately 9092 cubic centimeters in the imperial system or 8810 cubic centimeters in the U.S. system.

  • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
  • 22,110 bushels of French beans, at 6d. per peck, or 2s. per bushel
• 2

  Similar units in other systems of measure, such as the Roman modius or Chinese dou.

• 3

  A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.

  • She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten.
  • a peck of uncertainties and doubts

peckverb詞源 3/pɛk/

• 1

  regionalTo throw.

• 2

  To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.

  • Anyhow, one of them fell, another one pecked badly, and Jerry disengaged himself from the group to scuttle up the short strip of meadow to win by a length.

pecknoun詞源 4/pɛk/

• 1

  Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.

  • an occurrence of peck in rice

pecknoun詞源 5/pɛk/

• 1

  obsoleteslangFood.

  • Gemmen, have you ordered the peck and booze for the evening?

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• pec