[
UK
/pˈɛk/
]
[ US /ˈpɛk/ ]
[ US /ˈpɛk/ ]
VERB
- eat by pecking at, like a bird
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eat like a bird
The anorexic girl just picks at her food - hit lightly with a picking motion
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bother persistently with trivial complaints
She nags her husband all day long - kiss lightly
NOUN
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(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
a batch of letters
a slew of journalists
a lot of money
a wad of money
it must have cost plenty
a deal of trouble
he made a mint on the stock market - 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
How To Use peck In A Sentence
- Choose a white form if you want to add a bit more light to proceedings but, in my humble opinion, speckled purple is the best. Times, Sunday Times
- The phenomenon, called droop, has been a focus of Mr. Nakamura and other faculty members at University of California, Santa Barbara, including Soraa co-founders Steve DenBaars and James Speck . The Quest for Cheaper, Better Lights
- Large numbers of vestal moths and a few crimson speckled moths, both normally resident in the Mediterranean, have been seen on the south-west and south-east coasts and in Gwynedd.
- Take the white of one egg, and measure just as much cold water; mix the two well, and stir stiff with confectioners 'sugar; add a little flavoring, vanilla, or almond, or pistache, and, for some candies, color with a tiny speck of fruit paste. A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl
- Vogue was feeling peckish, so had a couple of mini croissants and an orange juice. The Sun
- Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika.
- He started as a clerk but gradually rose in the pecking order.
- It is not surprising that the mortality due to feather pecking, cannibalism and parasitic diseases can be disturbingly high.
- Sparrows, chickadees, woodpeckers, and an assortment of other creatures were awake and bustling that summer morning.
- Speckle tracking in migrating cells with retrograde flow had turned out to be more challenging.